This is an analysis of When Old Wounds Bleed Again by Robert Laurence Binyon.

When old wounds bleed again
In the silence of the night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbcb bddbeeeeXacca
  • Stanza lengths: 8,13,
  • Metre: 111101 0010001 110101 110101 0011001 110111 110111 1111001 110111 100001010 1011010 110101 010011 010101 110001 110101 001101 111101 011101 0111001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20