This is an analysis of To A Shade by William Butler Yeats.

IF you have revisited the town, thin Shade,
Whether to look upon your monument…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcbcbcbdedebfXXXgfgf
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 01101000111 1001011100 1100010101 11001010101 0101111001 1111010101 1011011100 1110110101 11111111 01 011100101111 0011111101 110110101001 1001010011 11011010001 1101011101 1101010001 11001110111 01011 110100 1100100100 0111101111 0111010111 1101010111 1101010011 01011110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26

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