This is an analysis of The Apparitions by William Butler Yeats.

BECAUSE there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccAD eeffggAD cchhffAD
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 0110100010 110111010 11110001 1110000101 010011001 1000111 011010111 0101010110 11110110 11111101 11111101 0111101 10010101 111101000 011010111 0101010110 1011101 1111101 01010111 11110111 01000101 110010011 011010111 0101010110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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