This is an analysis of the poem Byzantium that begins with:
THE unpurged images of day recede;
The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccaadddeedffggahhaiijjkllkaaXXXiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001000101 010010100101 1100011101 1010101 0101011101 1110 110100 01010100101 0111110111 1111110101 1101010101 1010101 0111110111 101110 1101010 1101011101 1001110101 110111101 101011101 11010101 1101010101 010010010 101110 11010001011 11110100101 1111011111 1101101001 11010101 1101000101 100001 110001 110001110101 01010101011 101010010101 0101000100 1000101 1101000100 110011 110001 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1403
- Average number of words per stanza: 244
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; shade, or, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all, i, an are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shade, handiwork are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase shade connects the lines.
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