This is an analysis of The Test by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Naked reality, and menace near
As fire to scorching flesh, shall not affright…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba cdcddd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1001001101 11001011110 01011010101 1011111101 1101110101 1001111101 1111011111 1011011111 1111010111 1101010101 1001110001 1011110101 10010110111 0101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
would, one, to
