This is an analysis of Niobe by Robert Laurence Binyon.

``Zeus, and ye Gods, that rule in heaven above,
Is there naught holy, or to your hard hearts dear?…

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Structure

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  • Stanzas: 18
  • Lines: 108

Repeated words/phrases

to, ye, who, in, i, and, that, her

Anaphora

bewailed, and, a