This is an analysis of Violets by Robert Laurence Binyon.
Violets, in what pleasant earth you grew
I know not, nor what heavenly moisture stole…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dedeXcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 1000110111 11111100101 0100110111 1101110101 1101011111 1011010111 1101110101 1111110010 10110101010 1101110101 11100110110 1011001111 1101110011 11010011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
