This is an analysis of Wanderers by Robert Laurence Binyon.

O there are wanderers over wave and strand
Invisible and secret, everywhere…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae ff
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 11110010111 0100110101 1011110101 1011110101 1100010101 1111100100 11011010101 1011110011 1011111101 111101000010 1110010101 010011101110 1101110101 1001010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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