This is an analysis of Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation by William Butler Yeats.

HOW should the world be luckier if this house,
Where passion and precision have been one…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefef
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11010100001 1101010101 1101011100 0101011101 1011010111 1111000111 11001100111 11100100101 1111110101 0111011101 01001110101 10110100011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12