This is an analysis of The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats.

I HEARD the old, old men say,
'Everything alters,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbbaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1101111 100010 11111110 11111111 01010111 1010 1101111 11100101 1010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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