This is an analysis of The Chestnut by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Who enters here, beneath this guardian shade,
Feels over him a tender sky of leaves…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacXbbca bddbeaaaea
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,
- Metre: 11010101001 1101010101 10110110101 1101001101 01110101001 0101000 010111 1001010011 11011110101 0101010111 1001110101 1110011101 1001011001 0101110100 1011011111 111111 001101 1001110101 00101010011 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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