This is an analysis of The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats.

WHEN I play on my fiddle in Dooney.
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXbXcdcXdXdaaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1111110010 11101001 110010100 1100100 11110110 1101101 1101101 1110101 11110101 0101001 101101110 1111101 100111010 111101 10101010 1010101 1101111 1011101 010001000100 11101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

in, my, i, merry

Anaphora

my, i, and

Epiphora

me