This is an analysis of The Clue by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Life from sunned peak, witched wood, and flowery dell
A hundred ways the eager spirit wooes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX bXbX cc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 1010110111001 0101010101 0101010010 1001011101 1101110111 1101110111 1101101101 1100011000 1101110101 10110011100 1111001101 0101110101 1111111111 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
to, so, yet, one, many
Anaphora
so
