Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake that begins with:

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My Paistin Finn is my sole desire,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcDeacacD EacXcDE XbafabgXgbhfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101011010 111100111 1111111010 01111001101 1010 0111101101 100000111 0110100101 11111011111 01110101 1010 0101101101 011011111 011101001 110110011 11011011001 1010 0101101101 1 111101110 100111 11101110 110001 0101010 0101101 10101001 10101001 110111010 0101001 111010010 11001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; my, i, whistled are repeated.

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

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