Key Facts

• 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.