This is an analysis of The Sibyls by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Rending the waters of a night unknown
The ship with tireless pulses bore me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaacdXc cbd ddddeecfce ccgcgcca adcfccahddijg jjccdkldjXdhkcaaafcda Xdgcgimdkcccgjchcgl bb aceaca egacXbdcmblbedmdgXcXXnmggdXggmnmX agmdXgbeeamaaddddadjd
- Stanza lengths: 8,3,10,8,13,21,19,2,6,33,21,
- Metre: 1001000101 0101001011 10100110111 10110 010001000101 10101010 100111100110 1011111 100111 010100101100011 1101001110101 1111000111 1010101 0010010101010 01001010111 1001001 01010110101 11000010111 11101011010 00111010 10110101 10101111 11001001001 1000110010010010 11000101111010 00101111001010 111011101 01010010101 0100010001 1111101 01001110 110000010 110101 11010100101 101101 110110100010 1110001010 101101010 01011011 0100101001 100010101011 101001010 11010 00101010001 100001 01010101001 1001001001010 11101101011 1010011010110 111010 1110101 1101001011 010001010000100 110100100010 11010010101 01010001010 00101010001 101001011111 11111 110010010 11101001 010101010 10100101 110110010 01000100111 1011010 01010100101 11110010 1000100101 01010101100 1001010011 10011101001 0100111011 010101101101 0100101 011100010 00101010 0101010101101 10110110110 101101001011 11010 11010 1111010010111 1111010111100001 101101101010 01001011 11011001010011 111101100111 1100111 1010101 11011001 1101101001010 10011 11011010111 010101000 111111 0100101 1110111 100111 101000111011 001011110110 1101101001 101001001001 101011001 01100101011011 1010110000111 1011010 111100100110 11110010001 11001101011 010010110111 00100010 110100101 0101101010 010010101010 1111100110 11001111101010 010101001010 1000110010010 1101110 101010100 1010001110001 11101100 1110101010 10011110 1010010010010 01110101 11011010 11011 100101101 001100010001 01110101 11011010 10110 1111001 10111110111 11011110 11011101101 101110101 0100110111 110010001 1100010001 101001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 143
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, with, our, what
Anaphora
and, their, peace, neither
Epiphora
desire
