This is an analysis of On A Political Prisoner by William Butler Yeats.
SHE that but little patience knew,
From childhood on, had now so much…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcdedfegeceecehchfcg
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 01110111 10011110 11010101 10010101 01010111 01000101 010101011 011100100 1110001 10011111 11011101 10110001 01000101 01110101 11011111 11011111 11110101 11011001 01110101 01010100 11001101 11010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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