This is an analysis of A Prelude At Evening by Robert Laurence Binyon.

My spirit was like the lonely air
Before night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeebfbf gbgbhihi agaggigf jkjkblbl bmbmbnbn oaoagmgm
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 110110101 011 110011101 0011 11011111 0011 1010010011 111 001101110 1110 110011110 00110 01011101 00101 11110111 100 111101101 0101 01010101 011 110111001 0011 01010101 1011 010011101 0111 10110011 011 001111101 111 111100101 1011 11011011 0011 11101001001 1011 110101001 1011 010011101 0101 11011111 0101 0100101001 01001 0100101101 0011 1000100101 111 10010101 1101 01110111 0011 11011101 0011 100111001 111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 56

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

a, and, of, it