Poem Analysis of Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Solomon To Sheba that begins with:

SANG Solomon to Sheba,
And kissed her dusky face,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXdaeXecdXXaeceXdXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1100010 110101 111011 1110011 11101001 111111 0010101 1011001 0100110 10101 1111010 11011 11010111 111101 01011110 110101 1100010 110101 10101110 11001 11010011 1111111 11011111 010101
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 687
Average number of words per stanza: 137
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

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