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Sailing To Byzantium

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Originally published 1928
Authors William Butler Yeats
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"Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten-syllable lines. It uses a journey to Byzantium as a metaphor for a spiritual journey.

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