This is an analysis of The Dark Garden by Robert Laurence Binyon.
When your head leans back slowly, and gazing eyes
Muse earnest upon mine and starry swim…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae ff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 11111101101 1100111101 01100011111 1011110111 1111110111 0111110101 0111101101 0100110111 1111111111 10010101101 1011010111 11110011101 1101000101 1101101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
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