What does the phrase 'Out-worn heart in a time out-worn' me
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From Yeat's poem Into the Twilight? Well most likely the phrase most troubling you is "Out-worn." Poetry often switches around sentence and even word structure to align it to meter. The phrase "Worn out" might make more sense than "Out-worn." However Yeats in this case chose it because "Out Worn" is an unstressed word followed by a stress, while switched around in the normal manner yields a stressed, unstressed pattern unwanted for this meter.
A good way to understand meter is through "upbeats and downbeats" in music. For example: ONE two THREE four is an example of stressed followed by an unstressed beat. WORN out vs. out WORN.
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