This is an analysis of Fog by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Magically awakened to a strange, brown night
The streets lie cold. A hush of heavy gloom…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadeccdefghfbbhg
  • Stanza lengths: 19,
  • Metre: 100001000111 0111010101 10100100101 1110010101 1101011101 01010101001 1001011111 01011111011 11110100101 1011110101 10101100101 1011010011 110110101101 10110011101 01011101001 11010010111 01000010101 01001010101 0101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

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