This is an analysis of In Hospital by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abca deX efg hhi hje eaf Xifk bXe lfX dgl fhi dmm mld iag fdX ijX hgf Xdhd fmd jag dnd cij omj heg bXafknk dfff epjp maka mlol bfmf hfXf hXdX Xhofo phmh fmXm hhph ahhh ohfh Xdgd mXld
- Stanza lengths: 4,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1 100010001110 0101001010010 1101010111 010101100101 110110001010 0100111010100 101110010110 1001011001 01011001001 100111001001 0101010101 0111001001010 1101000011010 101111001010 100100101101 01011100110 10011011011011 10010011111 1 0111011110 101101001101 101110101001 1001110100110 1011101001010 0101101101 1100011001011 110100101101 01100100001 01110100001 11001011111 0010011111010 110011011111 10011110101 10001100010110 1011100100110 10111001010 1100100010010 101011010010 101001010011 0101100111001 11111110010 011111101011 100110001001 0111100110 11110100110 1011100111 1011101101010 010010111110 0101001001010 10101101101010 1111001010010 0010110001010 1 0101100111 1001101001001 0101010111 011101010110 111001011010 01001001001001 1010101001010 1001010010011 0001111011 10010100101 010110111001 11110010111 00101101010010 11010111110 110101101010 11111011011 100101011110 1111101001010 111010100010 111111010010 111100100101 10100 0101 1 1000111001 010111001001 100110101001 10010101101 001110100110 10001101001001 1101010101 0101010011 001100100101 100110100101 10101010010110 10011011001 111111101001 1110010101 11101011001 1111110111 100011100110 010010010001 1101111111 10110010101 0101001010010 100101000101 0010011101101 1101011101 110101100111 110001011101 1111110010100 01010010111 010010100101 1010101011100 100101001011 000010111000 1 11101010111 0101010111 11010110111 001010010101 11101011101 10010010101 01111010101 11110100111 11111111101 11101010111 1111111101 010010010001 111101101110 11111011101 0111010101 11001011111 01110010101 1110010111 10010110101 11001011111 11100100111001 11100100100101 101101011111 11010111101 1100111011000 111001001001010 11110010101 11110101010 1101111011011 110111001110 101111101100 11101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 40
- Lines: 146
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, his, be, arrow, fear, it, you, we, from, o, in, who, they, to
Anaphora
the, we, o, they