This is an analysis of Nature by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Because out of corruption burns the rose,
And to corruption lovely cheeks descend;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeaeXcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 0110010101 1001010101 0100111101 0111110111 11010010100 0101000101 10110011101 1101101101 1111010101 1011010101 1000111101 1001010101 0111110101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14