This is an analysis of The Night Walk by Robert Laurence Binyon.

The night wind over the great downs
Streams along the sky.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcB abcb XbXB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01110011 10101 001010011 1010111 0111110 100111 1010110 010101 1110011 011101 0010100110 1010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12