This is an analysis of In Memory by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Home from the wounds of Earth and wasting Time
The marvel of her beauty and morning prime…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbXcc ddececdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1001011101 01000101101 111010000101 1101111001 1111010101 1011010100 01110101101 011111111111 1111101101 0111010111 01001010101 0101010101 11010010010 1111101101 0110010111 110101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of, her, all