This is an analysis of The Tunnel by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Sitting with strangers in the hurrying train,
We spoke not to each other. Golden May…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece ff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 10010001001 1110110101 1011110001 1101010101 0111110111 0100110111 1011110101 1001001101 1101010111 110010101 1111111111 110100111 1101110111 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
