This is an analysis of The Man And The Echo by William Butler Yeats.

Man
IN a cleft that's christened Alt…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbbaaccbbbbaabbdd e d a ffgXbbhhdXiijjccbb eb a ggggkkffbb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,18,1,1,1,18,2,1,10,
  • Metre: 1 0011101 1010111 1010001 1111101 11010001 1111111 1111111 1000101 11011101 11010101 0110111 1010101 01011111 1110101 1110111 1010111 11110011 1011111 10 1111 1 1001 0100010011 1100110101 0010101 1110111 11111101 11110101 1111101 10110111 110100100 11011111 11010111 11010111 01011101 11010101 11110101 1010111 11110001 10 0001 1 1101 11011101 11111111 1010001 11111101 01111101 11111111 1010111 010100101 1010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 53

Repeated words/phrases

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