Analysis of The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THOUGH you are in your shining days,
Voices among the crowd
And new friends busy with your praise,
Be not unkind or proud,
But think about old friends the most:
Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.
| Scheme | ABABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101101 100101 01110111 110111 11011101 110111 11010011 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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