This is an analysis of Sail Away by Rabindranath Tagore.

Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat,
only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this our…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXX Xbb aXXX Xaa
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,4,3,
  • Metre: 1000101101111001 101111100100111001 10001101011 0110010 11100100111110100 1111011001 001111 111101 10101110101 100101010110011 11101001 10110110011 100001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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