This is an analysis of Present And Future by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Look, as a mother bending o'er her boy,
The sleeping boy that in her bosom lies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXbcbddeXeffXgghiXchicjaajkekgge
  • Stanza lengths: 35,
  • Metre: 11010101001 0101100101 1001100101 0101000101 1001110101 1101111111 1101000101 1111000101 1101010101 1101011011 1101110101 1001111110 010101 1111011101 1110111111 0101110110 01010001 1011010101 100011 1111110101 1111010101 1101010111 1111010011 1100010111 0100011101 1011011101 1101011111 1111011100 110010000 10010011101 11000101101 1111011101 10100100101 1001010101 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, to, it, she

Anaphora

so, she