This is an analysis of Kitchener by Robert Laurence Binyon.
This is the man who, sole in Britain, sole
In Europe, by profounder instinct knew…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdXXcd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0001110101 0101100101 0101011111 1001100001 1101011101 1101110101 1001000101 0111100101 0001110101 0111011111 101010111010 01010010111 10001111111 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14