Analysis of Symbols
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
A STORM BEATEN old watch-tower,
A blind hermit rings the hour.
All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.
Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.
| Scheme | AABCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101110 01101010 1010111 10101001 1111011 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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