This is an analysis of The Oak by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Splendours of sunset burned upon the ground,
As from the lane's deep shade…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXcXdcd cacaeeceece
- Stanza lengths: 12,11,
- Metre: 1001110101 100111 0100110111 100101 1001010101 1101110101 1110010001 01001010111 1100111100 11010101010 1101110101 01011101010 1001110111 1100001 0101010101 1100101 0101010101 01010110011 1101000111 1111011101 0101001111 11011111010 1001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
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