This is an analysis of Koya San by Robert Laurence Binyon.
High on the mountain, shrouded in vast trees,
The stillness had the chastity of frost.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbcX dXXXefbefb aabaab ghcibagbga jjkjjk hihldbdbdd jmnmjn micXbfbofo bjmbjmcbhmajijai lmnmln XbaXabbabb
- Stanza lengths: 6,10,6,10,6,10,6,10,16,6,10,
- Metre: 1101010011 0101010001 1101010001 0111011111 1101001111 0001010100 100000111001 01000010 1001000101010 10010 01010100111 10010010111 0111100111 1111000101 1101011101 011100100011 1101010101 11001101111 11010110101 1100011101 1011101101 1001110101 11010101000111 101010 01010001110110 101010 101010100101 10100001101 1001010001 0011111100 0111100101 11101110111 0100110101 01001010101 0101001101 1001011101 0100010101 1111010101 10110101010 100010 1001110011010 01110 10101110101 110010101001 1011110011 1101010101 01010100101 0101110101 11010011101 1100111011 1001010101 1001010101 0101001101 1111010001 011010101111 00110 101001010101010 011000 0101001101 1111010011 01011100101 10010000101 1101110101 1111000111 1110110001 0001010001 1111011101 1011010001 1111011101 0111011111 1000101000011 01010 101111001010 10011 1101010101 1101100101 1101111111 1001000101 11010001011 1011100100 1011111101 1011011001 0101000101 1111001101 1101101101 1011011101 1001000101010 10010 1011001001010 11110 1110110101 0101010111 1101011101 01001010011 01110111001 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 96
Repeated words/phrases
of, his, in, and, my
