This is an analysis of Invocation To Youth by Robert Laurence Binyon.

COME then, as ever, like the wind at morning!
Joyous, O Youth, in the aged world renew…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11110101110 1011001101 100101000010 1111110101 0111011 1111001 0101010 1111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8