This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Walt Whitman that begins with:

By the East River and the Bronx
boys were singing, exposing their waists...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabac dbcX XeXfgg ggcf chei jkilX fcfcXlgmXfk ecblg nfaccckl ggccaXdX comfXc cfpecb bgkb lggf oeaaccg beoc fangXcfca Xach cfqppXXmgXm ccca kcXfjXq aXjmXcclldag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,4,4,5,11,5,8,8,6,6,4,4,7,4,9,4,11,4,7,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 101001011 00101101010 1010101010001 1101011010 110011 1001000010 1001011 10100011 1011010100 101000100 101100101 0101010 110101110100110 101010101 11001 100100001 100111 1010100101 1110110 0100101001 010010001100 101001011111 1110 111011 110010011 1011010101 1010010111000 110101101011 111011110101 11101101101 11111010 111101001 11100101 11101 00111010 1000010 100001 1100100111 110101010 101100111111 100100101101010 0111111011 0110110010 11010100110 101111101011 011111 1011 0100100010 1000101001 1101111010 010110111 11111111 1110011 10011001 101110 11111 010110010 10011101 01101001010 11111110 1001011 1011110 00110101 10110010 01111010 11101111 1010111110010 110010 10111010110 101010111100 10110010110010 111010101010 1111111011 1001100100011 1110010110010 010110011011001 0011101001 0111110010 111101100101001 10010010111 000111100100 10101010101 11010110101011 0111100 101010101 110101010110 10100110010010 101010101001010 0111001111 011100010 11111111110 01010111 010011010 10101110101 00100011 1010101010010 111000100010 101010111011 111011111010 110111010 01011011 10011010100 001101101 11011111 101101010 11011 10010100 100010 100101 10001 10001 10001 100100 10000100 1000110001 101011110 100010111001 1110101111 110101 1011 11011010101 11010010 100101 0100010100100 1010010001 111011010110101 01101011000 11111111 1101110110001 111001 1011010 1010010100100101 110100100101 0101101010001111 101100101101 101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; none, of, them, your, agony, men, in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words none, new, nor, enemy are repeated.

    The author used the same words not, he's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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