This is an analysis of May Night by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Come, let us forth, and wander the rich, the murmuring night!
The shy, blue dusk of summer trembles above the street;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaab cdacda
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 11111100101001 0111010100101 110101010101 11010010110101 1101110010111 101101111011 1101010010101 010111010101 0101001110101 011101111101 110101111001 1111110011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

with