This is an analysis of The Birch Tree by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Touched with beauty, I stand still and gaze
In the autumn twilight. Yellow leaves and brown…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacc cdcdededeeaafbbf
- Stanza lengths: 6,16,
- Metre: 101011111 00101110111 0101011101 01111100101 0101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010001 1011011101 1011010111 1101010101 110100101001 01110111001 11011100001 0101100110 11110011101 10110100101 1101010111 0101110111 111110110101 110010111001 0100100101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, nor
