This is an analysis of The Convict by Robert Laurence Binyon.
By the warm road--side, where chestnut and thorn
The brightness shaded, supine, at ease,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec bfbf cece cccc cgcgXacac
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011111111 010100111 010111 110110101101 1111001001 101101010 0101011 011010011110 0101001001 011101101 110101 01010110101 1100101001 0010111001 11011001 011011110101 1100100111 110101001 0100111 110110100101 100111111 011011001 0111101 110010100101 01100101 0111100111 110111 1100100101101 11011001001 1111110101 00101001 101100100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
and
