This is an analysis of Dawn By The Sea by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Beautiful, cold, freshness of light reveals
The black masts, mirrored with their shadowy spars,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaa bcbc dede ff
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 1001100101 01110011001 0111010111 1100110101 1101101101 1011011101 0111101101 1100010101 1101101111 1111011111 01001001101 0101010001 1111111101 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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