This is an analysis of Glorous Heart by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Swift and straight as homing dove,
Heedless, so its flight be flown,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abacbDc efecfDc XgXhgDhXdhdchDc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,15,
  • Metre: 1111101 1010101 1011011 11111010 1010101 1001 11101010 10101010 1010101 10111010 01111110 1010101 1001 10101010 1110111 1010101 1110111 10111011 1110001 1001 11111011 1011101 1010101 1110111 11111010 1111101 1001 10111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

when

Anadiplosis

love