This is an analysis of To The Enemy Complaining by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Be ruthless, then; scorn slaves of scruple; avow
The blow, planned with such patience, that you deal…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdbXcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 01011101001 0110110111 1100111111 01001111101 1111111101 0100100111 11110111001 1111010010 1111110101 0101000100 0100110111 1101110001 1011010101 0101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you, of
Anaphora
of
