This is an analysis of Parting And Meeting by Robert Laurence Binyon.
When we are parted, the world ails,
Life wants, the pulse of it falls slack;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdXccd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 11110011 11010011 01110111 10111101 10011101 10111101 01110111 1111011010 11010011 11110101 11111110 11111101 01110111 10111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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