This is an analysis of Initiation by Robert Laurence Binyon.
The wind has fal'n asleep; the bough that tost
Is quiet; the warm sun's gone; the wide light…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabcbada cecfdadfa XgddhXdXi jhXhekafk jbjblmbmm gcdcaciai gagmbnhbh mlmlXcnfn
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 0111010111 0100111011 110111 10101110111 1010110011 0101111101 110111001 0111111101 1010011001 1111010111 11000101001 1100111 1111010101 1011001110 0101111001 1001001101 1011010100 0101001101 0101100110 10001001101 00100001 01000101011 11010011111 1111000100 1011011111 1001010001 1101101101 1111110101 110000110101 1101111011 110111 11010100001 1111111111 0100010011 11110100101 0101011101 1101010101 0101110101 11011010001 1111 0100110001 0101010101 10000110111 0100011111 0101001101 0111101101 1111100101 0101011101 110101 1001111101 1111110011 00111011111 1111010101 1111011111 1101011101 1001011111 0101001 1101110111 11001011001 0101110111 1101011101 1101001011 0111011101 11010100101 0110111111 0111001 1101010001 01101100101 1111111101 1101011101 1111011101 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
so, fear, to, i
Anaphora
so, the