This is an analysis of The Player Queen by William Butler Yeats.

MY mother dandled me and sang,
'How young it is, how young! '…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXbbbcdcadXXbeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 11010111 1100111 1101010 110111 11101101 111101 11010101 011101 11011101 110101 110111111 110101 11111101 110111 110100101 110111 11111111 010011 1111110 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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Epiphora

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