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The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland : Key info

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  • Poet: W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)
  • Original Title: The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
  • Written Time: Around the 1890s
  • First Published: 1893 (in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics)
  • Form: Narrative Lyric Poem
  • Genre: Symbolic and Philosophical Poetry
  • Tone: Dreamlike, Reflective, Melancholic, and Mystical
  • Rhyme Scheme: ABBA
  • Meter: Iambic Pentameter
  • Point of View: Third Person, Omniscient Narrator
  • Total Lines: 48
  • Total Stanzas: 4
  • Setting:
  • Time Setting: Late 19th Century (Romantic-Modern transition period)
  • Place Setting: Various Irish landscapes- Dromahair, Lissadell, Scanavin, and Lugnagall. They blend the real world with the mythical realm of Faeryland.