This is an analysis of the poem Broken Dreams that begins with:
THERE is grey in your hair.
Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: abccabdedefefgHcigXHjicjhkdlkdmeljmehaXjaH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 11110100111 11110 110111010010 010111 0101010101 1111111111 110010111 0110101 100101111 10110101001 1101001111 11010001 110111011 1100101100 01110111110 010111110110 01010001011 11111101 1100101100 1001111001 01001111110 10110110 00110000101 1001001101 111100101 1111001101 11110101 11101100 111011101 110001 01010011101 1111010101 101101101 011111 1111 0110111 110011 0101110111 1 01001011001 1100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1539
- Average number of words per stanza: 287
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Broken Dreams;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
More information about poems by William Butler Yeats
- Analysis of All Souls' Night
- Analysis of A Prayer For My Son
- Analysis of A Man Young And Old: Ix. The Secrets Of The Old
