This is an analysis of The Things That Grow by Robert Laurence Binyon.

It was nothing but a little neglected garden,
Laurel--screened, and hushed in a hot stillness;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebXXdXedXaccfcbXbeXfXc
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 0110101001010 1011100110 11111101001 111100110101 10100111010 10010110110 1111000011010 11110100110 11010111110 00011001101 010100101110 1010010010101 101100101001 1101101111 001010101011 0101100111010 100010001001 010110010101 10110100101 0100111001011 101110010010 111110101011 1011110010010 10011111101 01001011010010 101100111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

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