This is an analysis of In The Firelight by Robert Laurence Binyon.
So sad and so lonely, Dear?
What dream by the fire do you dream…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdecde fafadgbdgb
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,
- Metre: 1111101 111010111 1111111 1111101 0011010011 011110010 11011011 111001111 1111010010 111111 111101 1101111 1011111 1100101 1111110 00101101 1111011 101110110 1101111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
so, that
