This is an analysis of February Night by Robert Laurence Binyon.

O Weariness, that writest histories
On all these human faces, and O Sighs…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbc cddcceeffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 5,11,
  • Metre: 1100110100 1111010111 1111011111 01001111001 11010001001 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1100110111 1111010111 0101101111 0001111111 01001011111 1101001111 11010110111 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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