This is an analysis of On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature by William Butler Yeats.

Where, where but here have pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11111111 11010111 01110111 01010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4