This is an analysis of the poem Sailing To Byzantium that begins with:
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That is no country for old men. The young... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbcdd XbebebXff XghXhghaX XibiXibff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- 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
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, to, or are repeated.
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