This is an analysis of Song. What Boat Is This That Bears by Robert Laurence Binyon.
What boat is this that bears
My soul on an ocean, fanned…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaa XcdcXX bdbdee
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 110011 1111101 110101 0110101 00110111 01001001 1001010 110101 111101 010101 11000100 01011111 101101 110111 100101 101101 11111101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
