This is an analysis of Vigil by Robert Laurence Binyon.
In the hollow of pale night upon the moor
The silence blows a perfume: O but hark!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc effeXggX dccdcffX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 00100110101 0101001111 0100010001 11010001001 0100010101 1101010101 1100110101 1001010111 100101001011 0111110111 1101010001 0101110101 1101011100 1111011111 1111010011 1001001101 1111011111 0111110001 1100110001 1111101101 10100100101 1100010111 01010101111 1111000100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, o, we
