This is an analysis of The Arras Road by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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The early night falls on the plain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcc ccbb ddaX Xeecc ffgg hhii ggbb XhhXX jjaX kkcc
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,
- Metre: 1 01011101 01110001 11111101 01010101 10011101 01110111 11110101 11111101 111111010 101111010 11111101 11011100 1 11111111 11010101 10011111 101011101 11110101 01100101 11111101 11110101 10111101 01111101 100111010 0001111010 11110111 11110101 01110101 11010111 1 10111101 100101001 110101111 01001110 01110101 100010101 10011101 11010110 110101011 10010111 11011101 00010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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