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

O strange, O sweetly warm
Falls the sunshine on my cheek.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadcd efgfehgh gibigebe
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 111101 1011111 110101 0011111 010101 001110 011101 10110001 110101 11011010 11001 1101010 111001 1111001 0011111 00111101 111101 101110 11101 1101010 1111101 011111 000111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

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