This is an analysis of The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats.

THE Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
Have pulled the Immortal Rose;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbffgghh
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 0101111110101 1100101 110101101111 010101 0101110100101 101101 11001011111010 01010010 010011110001 111111 011101110101 010111 1100101101100 1011001 11110111111 010101 110101010101 100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

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