This is an analysis of The Builders by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Staggering slowly, and swaying
Heavily at each slow foot's lift and drag,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXaabbabcdccceeffgegbbdeg
  • Stanza lengths: 27,
  • Metre: 10010110 1001111111 0111000111 110111 0111110101 111101 1101001101 0100111 1101010 01101101 0011010101 1111010111 1110111101 101101001 10011101 1101011111 11011001101 11010001010 11000111010 010111 00100110010 1001111101 011001 1111011 10010100001 010101 0011011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

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