This is an analysis of To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time by William Butler Yeats.
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabbbbcXddcceeffggbbhhaA
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 1111110111 1111110101 10010000101 0101110101 11110111001 1111010111 01010100101 1011110100 1111110111 1110010111 0111011101 01010100101 1111111111 0101101101 1111110111 0111010011 0111011001 1101011111 1101010111 1100110111 1101011111 1111011101 101110101 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
rose, and, come, near
Anaphora
the
