This is an analysis of Over The Sea by Robert Laurence Binyon.

There came an evening when the storm had died
After long rain, miraculously clear:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebebXee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
  • Metre: 1111010111 1011010001 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 1111011101 11110110001 11001110001 1111100101 1111111111 0111010101 0111111111 1111110011 1111110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14