This is an analysis of Airmen From Overseas by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Who are these that come from the ends of the oceans,
Coming as the swallows come out of the South…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc defe acfc caXaXdaaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 111110010010 10101011001 0010001111011 010001001101 111111001010 111100101 101110100101000 10011010111 01110101001 10010100101 101100111010 010010010101 111100100011 1010101 011101001010 110100100111 001110111010 1011010001 11100110101110 1010010110101 0101001001010 11101101001001 11110101111 1111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
come, of, and
