This is an analysis of the poem An Apple From Walt Whitman that begins with:

There's never been a poet where I live,
but I grew up in the shade of Whitman's name:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdXeXf gXbfbh feaijgXXidahjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100010111 11110010101 1011111111 11010111101 101010101 0011111101010100 1010101101 11110101110 011010011110010 110101001110 11111001110 110110111 11001101101 1110010111 10011110111 1111010101 11011101101 10101011001 011100101011 010101001010 10100111001001 11111100110 001001010111 11010101001001 011110111010 110110100110 11110101010 101011001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, whitman, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an is repeated.

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  • summary of An Apple From Walt Whitman;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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