This is an analysis of For The Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad efgf gheh ahhh gcac caXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011100101010 1011010101 100110100010 10001001 10011110110 1101000101 101000101010 1010110111 11010010101 10110110101 101001011110 110110001 111111111111 11110010001 1010100110010 100100 110101101101 111110101001 111101110011 1101101 111010111101 110101101001 0010110111111 10111001 10111011111 100100101001 10111100010110 001001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
her, of, they, to
Anaphora
they, as