This is an analysis of Before Sleep Comes by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Where do you float from, visions that shine ere sleep
Subdues with leaden law…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded XfXf dfff ggeg faca fhhh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101111 100101 01010001001001 101001011 11100110010 1001101 10110001001001 10100101 1101111001101 110101 110101001101 010101 1110100100101 1010101 110100101001 110111 110110100101 1010101 001011110111 0011111 111011101001 10110101 01011101111 110111 11111100101 1101111 11011101111 101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
