This is an analysis of Dark Wind by Robert Laurence Binyon.

In the middle of the night, waking, I was aware
Of the Wind like one riding through black wastes of the air,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc dddXddd
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,7,
  • Metre: 0010001101101 0011110111001 10010101011011 010100101111 1010110010011 1010100100101 111010011110011 1001010111101 1101100100101 0110111010011 1001010100111 11001110101011 1010100101110001 1110110010111 0010100100101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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