This is an analysis of The Unreturning Spring by Robert Laurence Binyon.
A leaf on the gray sand--path
Fallen, and fair with rime!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xaba bccc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110111 101101 01010101 1011101 110111 1100111 10001010 1011111 01110010 11010001 10111001 101001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
leaf, days
Anaphora
days, for
