This is an analysis of Words by Robert Laurence Binyon.

Words, breathing words, full--murmuring syllables!
How you enrich the thoughts that dwell in you…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 11011100100 1101011101 0110111101 11010100101 0111010111 1101010001 1101010101 0101101101 1111111111 1101010011 1101111111 1111010101 11111110101 0101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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