This is an analysis of The Lady's Second Song by William Butler Yeats.

WHAT sort of man is coming
To lie between your feet?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabacaC XdXdedC eabaXaC
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 1101010 010111 11011110 111101 11100110 11101 01110011 1111111 100111 111110 010101 1111010 110101 01110011 1110110 10011 101010 0100101 01111101 10011 01110011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Anaphora

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