This is an analysis of The Death of Cuchulain by William Butler Yeats.

The harlot sang to the beggar-man.
I meet them face to face,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXcdccadaXXde efbfaggg faXabada
  • Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,
  • Metre: 010100101 110101 10100101 111101 0111011011 1011101 110010111 110111 1111110 111101 01110011 110101 1111110 111110 11011101 110111 111110111 110100 1100110 011100 1110010 111111 11100101 111111 1101010 110101 111110101 010001 01010101 1100101 11011010 100101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 32

Anaphora

that

Epiphora

loathe