This is an analysis of Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats.
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That is no country for old men. The young…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbcdd XbebebXff XghXhghaX XibiXibff
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 1 1011011101 0101011001 1101010111 01010100101 1111011101 1100010111 10110010101 1000100101 1 111010101 0101010101 1101111101 11001000101 1011011100 1000011000 1111110111 00101000100 1 11010011010 1001010001 10010101001 1001010011 01110110010 1100010100 0111001101 00010000100 1 1101011101 110010101001 1101110101 0101111000 0101010001 1101010101 0111000100 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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