This is an analysis of Peace by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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Lovely word flying like a bird across the narrow seas,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcbdedeffff Xgeggge Xdbdbhhffbibi XadjdkeieflXl ammffbbff abebekk Xeebelhjhcfjf
- Stanza lengths: 13,7,13,13,9,7,13,
- Metre: 1 10110101010101 110010111001 10010001010100 010001010001 11010101110101 1100011101 1110101101010 01001010001 110110101010101 1101010001 111101010100 1011010101 1 1110101 11010101 111 01010101 11010101 101 1 11110101 10111001 01010101 11010101 1010111 01110101 10111001 11000101 10010101 1111101 1110101 101 1 111101110101 1111010101 1011101000100 0101011111 100010110110 0100111111 1011111111100 1011111111 1101011101011 1111010101 1011011011100 1111010001 1 01000101111 1101010101 1101101101 1111111101 1001100101 0101011111 010010010111 1101010111 1 1010001 1010101 1011101 1011101 0001000111 0001110100 1 10110101010101 1011110101 1010100010101001 0101110101 1100111010101 1101010101 10011001000100 0101101100 10110101110100 0111011101 10111011011100 1011100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 81
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, from, her, they
Anaphora
and, we, not, it, then
Anadiplosis
come
