This is an analysis of May Evening by Robert Laurence Binyon.
So late the rustling shower was heard;
Yet now the aëry west is still.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeabfbf gagahaha
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 110101011 11010101 01111101 11100111 10010101 10011101 11110101 01010111 10110101 10010101 110101001 100010111 111100101 110111001 011100101 01011111 01011101 11000101 11110111 11010001 10110101 101100101 01110111 00111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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