This is an analysis of To Women 27 by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Amid the thunder of the guns,
The lightnings of the lance and sword…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X a a X Xbab
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,4,
  • Metre: 01010001 01000111 11111101 1100100100 01111111 01010111 10010101 01011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

your, to

Anaphora

your