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

A DOLL in the doll-maker's house
Looks at the cradle and bawls:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbXbaXaXXcXccbcX
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 01001101 1101011 1010101 10100101 11110111 1010001 1101110 1101101 10001 0110101 100101 0101101 101111 01101001 0101101 11101001 1100001 1011010 111111 011100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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