A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Crazed Girl that begins with:

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa baXaXc ccbXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010010 0100100101 010010001 10101111 10010110011 0111011101 0100101101 1100111001 110101001 110100101 111110010 10110101 110010001 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, wound are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wound connects the lines.

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