This is an analysis of The Enemy by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Would'st thou this monster, that we name the world,
Who round the envied tree of blissful fruit…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbbccdeed fdfdddaaecce
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,
- Metre: 1101011101 1101010101 110101 0101110001 1111010100 110101 0101011101 1111010101 0101100101 1101001101 1011011101 1101001101 1001100101 01001110100 110101 0101010001 1101010101 010001 0001010101 1011101101 1101010100 01010111001 1101011111 0111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
with, our, to, her
