This is an analysis of the poem To Walt Whitman In America that begins with:
Send but a song oversea for us,
Heart of their hearts who are free,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedeaae fgfgddg ahahddh ijijkkj kbkbllb fXfmdXm cacamma ninikki ililXml ddddjjd kckXXdc XmXmhhm hihijji ihihooh alalddl pXpmddm Xdkddad ciXilli cXchddh iaXammaXdmdmppm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110110111 1011111 101100011 1111010 10010110 0111011010 1101101 110011110 11101111 0010011010 11011101 11101011 01011001 1110111 11110010 11001001 010010010 0111001 01001001 1111101 1101001 111100001 10100111 010110101 1110001 010110011 1101111 1111001 0100100100 0100101 00110100100 1111111 001111101 01001001 11111101 10010111 001011010 00100100011 00100101 00111001 11110011 00100111 001110110 11011010 00100100010 1111001 01110010 001110110 10100111 010010110 001001011 101001110 001000101 10100111 11010101 11110111 1010010001 1111101 1010011010 0111101 11111111 11011111 1111011 11111010 1111001 10110110 1111001 10010001000 0101001 01011001 11010010 1101001 1011011010 1111111 10111011 01001111 110001001 0111101100 110010010 110011100 1100110 01111100 01001000 11110110 111100110 01101111 01110110 0111101 1101001 0100101 00110101 11101100 111001 110100100 1101101 1011001 101011 1111101 1111010 110111 0010110010 1111001 1001001 1111001 111001 10101101 1001001 10111101 101011 101111 101011011 111011001 01110010 110001110 111110110 1101111 011010010 1011011010 0111101 1010001100 101111011 0111110010 11010001 011011000 101001101 101001101 101101100 1001101 100010010 101001101 1011001 10011001 01101101 1010011010 10011011 10110110 1001011 110001001 01001001 0010100001 1011011110 001001101 1010011000 0111010001 111001001 111111001 111001001 0010011010 001001101 0010111010 001101101 0110110110 01110110 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 154
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, with, us, of, not, it, how, in, than, no, by, most are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words heart, with, whose, a, one, the, here, few, how, some, and, by are repeated.
The author used the same words with, till at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).
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