This is an analysis of Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland by William Butler Yeats.
THE old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand,
Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbCXXXXCddaac
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 01111101110101 1001011110011 11011111001111 11110011011001 0110100100 01110101110110 110101011110111 10111101111110 11111111110101 0110100100 01011101111111 1011110100101 1101010110111 11010110010101 0110100100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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