This is an analysis of The Wonder Night by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Now danced are all the dances,
And all the games are done,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbb deXebe dedebe fgaghg fhdhXh dXieie XbXbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111010 110111 0101010 101111 0110110 010111 11001010 011101 0101110 011101 1101010 1101001 1111010 110101 1001010 110101 1110011 110101 1101010 110111 11001010 0011001 1101111 010101 0110010 100111 0101110 010101 01111111 010101 10111110 01110110 01001010 100111 1101110 111111 0101110 1010101 0111010 011101 1101010 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the