This is an analysis of Twilight by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Warm, the deserted evening
Closes over the moor.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc XdXd XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001010 101001 101111010 1011001 101001 1100111 10010010 1001001 1101111 1111001 01111010 010101 11011110 010101 1100110 10100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the