This is an analysis of The Trembling Tree by Robert Laurence Binyon.
On greenest grass the lace of lights
Beneath the shadowing tree…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abac adXd efff Xceb Xgdg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 0101001 10111111 110100 01011100 010101 11111101 010101 00010111 100111 01010001 110001 11111111 010100 11010001 1111001 01010001 101101 11010100 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20