To a Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
Analysis
"To a Young Girl" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats. This poem is about a female who broke Yeats' heart in order for the girl to please her mother. He says that even though he knows she loves him, she still did it. He says, "Who broke my heart for her" (referring to the girl breaking her heart for her mother) and yet he "Set all her blood astir" and "glittered in her eyes".
"To a Young Girl" is a single stanza written as eleven lines. It is written with the rhyme schene ABABABCDCDEC.
Poem
To a Young Girl My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir And glittered in her eyes.
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