This is an analysis of The Anvil by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Burned from the ore’s rejected dross,
The iron whitens in the heat.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 10010101 01010001 01010111 01010101 110101111 11010011 11010111 01110111 10011001 1101100111 11010101 11100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
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