This is an analysis of Flame And Snow by Robert Laurence Binyon.

The bare branches rose against the gray sky.
Under them, freshly fallen, snow shone to the eye.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd dd ee ff ee dd gg hh XX ii eeXff
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Metre: 0110101011 100101011001 1011100101 10110100100101 001101101101 11010100101001 0110010010100101 1111110010111 101111010101 110101110011 11101011011001 101100100110011 1101010100101 010010110111 0010011011101 1101001010011 11010011111001 0011011110101 1101001011101 10100101011001 1101011011 1110111001001 01001010111100 110100101011000 111001110101 10001001101101 1001010101111 01110111011 101011111101 10011110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 15
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

in, of, it, and, from

Anaphora

and