This is an analysis of What Then? by William Butler Yeats.

HIS chosen comrades thought at school
He must grow a famous man;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaaX cbccX dbddX ebeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 01011111 1110101 11011111 1010101 11110111 1011111 1010011 01010101 1110101 111101111 10100111 01111101 1111101 10110111 11110111 010101111 10001101 10111101 1000101 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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