This is an analysis of Doing And Making by Robert Laurence Binyon.

I am weary of doing and dating
The day with the thing to be done,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1110010110 01001001 0101010 0010111 1101001 1101101 111101111 111001011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

to, i

Anaphora

give, i