This is an analysis of Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? by William Butler Yeats.
WHY should not old men be mad?
Some have known a likely lad…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddcceeaabbffaa
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 1111101 1110101 11011101 10010100 01111101 10110001 010010111 11010001 1100100111 11011101 10110101 11010101 11010111 01010101 01010001 11110001 01011101 11111111 11110101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
to, of, know, old
Anaphora
and
