This is an analysis of The Belfry by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Dark is the stair, and humid the old walls
Wherein it winds, on worn stones, up the tower.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fdfd gege hihi haha cfcf afaf fjfj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001110011 01011111010 1011111100 10011001010 1101010111 0111011101 0111011101 0011011111 1011110101 11110100101 1001111101 11011100101 1100110101 01001011111 1001010101 1101011101 1100011111 1101100101 01001010110 1111010101 0110110111 1111010101 0101110101 1011000101 1111110101 1100011101 0110110101 1101010101 11010010101 010010010101 10010010101 11010010101 1101010101 1111110111 1110010111 0101110101 11011110011 110010101101 1101110101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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