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

Fly home, my thoughts, that fretting
In alien words all day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc efefaa ghghbb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111110 0100111 1110110 111101 1100111 1001011 1111110 110101 1111010 1011101 0101001 0111111 1111110 010101 1111110 010101 1101010 1001010 1111010 111101 0101010 010101 11010111 110101011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

you

Anaphora

fly

Epiphora

you