This is an analysis of Wingless Victory by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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Victory! Was that proud word once so dear?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccbbcXX dadXaX Xceecceec eccXeX Xfeeffeef bcbggc
- Stanza lengths: 9,6,9,6,9,6,
- Metre: 1 1001111111 1100010101 1101010111 01010011011 1111010101 1111010111 001100101100 1111110110 1101010001 1111110101 1011011101 1101110001 1001111100 00100010100 1 1111101101 1111011101 1111110100 1001011101 0101111101 0111110111 11110110010 0111110111 0101010101 1111110101 01110101111 0101101100 1101111101 1111110101 1 1001111101 10001110001 1101010101 01011111001 1101011001 1111001101 11111001001 0111010001 1001111101 1100011101 1011010011 0011110111 11001010111 0100011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
we, and, to
Anaphora
and
