This is an analysis of the poem Salut Au Monde that begins with:

O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman!
Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd aefeaXXbgb bhcibcghaXb a ejklbgmfbblXcgXegabhdXdnfXXakXhXbhfbobdcbcm aX fbhgellbk bXXXXXghhXliXhgblomoXlXgbhl lncb abpXpXfkhblXnXghlhcXbaXfq rrhph rbg XbhXidhmimk olhX abbXXlXlX hbllhgaldkmXba lab ar bggbbchXaXlXblgps hcl XXoXb lcdoieXfjbthX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,11,1,43,2,9,27,4,25,5,3,11,4,9,14,3,2,17,3,5,13,4,8,12,3,18,7,7,45,5,6,15,5,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 110101111 11100111001 110011100101 110011110 1111010 111101111 110101101100 11011101010 11010111010011011 1011 110111101111 1101011111001 110010111010 0111011010110 1010010100101000010100 1 1001001101010 100011110101 0110010101101010 11111 10110110111110010 0101101 01111101101011 0101010101110010 1111110 11010101010110 110010010101010010 001 11110100100011011 0101011 1110010010010011 1101010100001110 010101 11010010001 11111001 11000101100100100001 101 1100101101001000101 001011 11011010011101000 1101000100011110 11010010101010111 1101010001011101 110010011001 1101001011110001010 1001100011001 1101001101010100 110100100100101001 110101010001001 1101011010011011 0010110101 110101001001110 110111010111 11010010101011001 110 110100111011110 101111111100100 111101 110010010111100110 100101101 110101000111 110101001101100 010 110100011110100100 101 1101010010010011 1000101000101011 110001 1111110 111101111100100111 110111010101 1110011010111100 100101001001011010 10 1101011111010110 1011110101 11010010100111 111011111000100001 11001 111010 1110111001001011000 111 11100101011101 11010100010101000 1101010101011 11010110101 110100110010010 1001111110 110100110110100 1101000110110101 1001010 110011101101000 1101100100100 1101001001101010 1111010101010 110010010100100100101 010010101001011010 01 001101010001011010 101 0100101001001011 01010 0110100100101001000 10 0111101010100 0111010111 1010100001 11011001001101 1 11010010010010 1010111000110100 1111100 11001011110101 10011100 1010110101010101 100101011 1011101010101101101 10101011101 10101010101001100 1010101111001 1 10100101101 101001011001101 1000101101010101000 10101111010101 10011010101010 10010101010010010001 1100 10110100010111001 1111000100101 1110111100101010 101001011010 11101010011101 1111011010100101 10011001001010 11010011001 110101011001011 0100 1100110110010 11001010100 110010100001 1101000010011101 10011 11011010011 111010101111001001 1101101010010 11010110101 110111001001001010 011101 111010111010010 11010001 110100010010010 11010101010100100101 11011010101001 11010011000 0100110101 10100 1101000101001101001 11010001000100100011010 101 11010010001101100 1000101010110 100 111101010101101011 10 110100010010011101 100 1111110010011000 1011110 11101011101011 10011111 11010010011110100 100010101110 111101010010101 01 11101010101010100010 11111 001111011110011 10111111 10100010111001100 1 110101001110101 1011 11010101101010 1101010010001000001 011001001 110100010 111111111101 111010111111111 1101001010100100 110110110101010 10111011100110 11111011110 10101001111000 10010 11010101 1101000010011010101 10 11001010101011 1101011001110101 10 110100110100111 0101101001 1101100110 1110110110111001 1110111101001011 110010100 11001000101100 11010100111001000100 1000101011 11100100010110111 1110111110100110100 1111011010101001 1 11110010101010110 10011011010010 0110110111111010 10010100100 010101010111101 10010010111011000 10100101111 01110110101010 1010111011001010 1110100 110010110011000101 0101011101 11101110010111001 001 110100111 1101110101 1101100011001 110010010111111 110101011011001 010101010 1101101010010011 0110101010 110100011111110010 0 1101010 1101000010110001100101 1101011010 11010110101000100 1100101101010010101 10101010 101011101111001001 111001000110110 10 101011110110001 1110100010110 1101010111001010 101010 11100110101 110110011001001100 11010101010010110 101 11010001101001100001 1 1101101000100 1101001101010110 10 111011110101010101011 101011010 1110100101101001100 11110100101001010 1111101 11110101010100110 10110110100 111011001110110 101100101 11010001100 11010000101 1100101010001 1101011110010101 11010110010011000 1 1101010101011110 111111101 110011010100 11010000011 110010010101100011 1111010010010110101 1101000 11011001000011 101011 11011010 10010101110011010 11010101101001110 10110010110101 1110111000110 110011101 110011001 11011001000100 1101001101010010010 11000101 1101001011010110 101 11001010010101000100 11000110101001 1110100010101 11011010010101100 1111101111010 11001010111001010 10001 1100110000101100100 11000101010111 11100011111001011 110011 11011001111010 110010010011100010 11001010010010101 101 1111010001011000101 010 11010101001110101 10011 110101011110100010 11100 110101011111000010 10 110111101100101001110 101 111010010100100100100 01 1110100100010000001 11010011110011 11111011110111011 01 1010001101101001 10101000 10110010100101010 1 10101001001001 1011101011001 11000101011011 11101011111 1101001001001010000 10 1110110100110111 10111 11101010001110111 1100101100100 11010101000010111011010 111001001 110101011001001 1001011 1110100 11011100010 111010101010 110100010 101010010100110100111 11001011101010101011 1110110110101110 1111110110111111 10110011011 1101100101010100101 1 11111011011010110 11 11101011101100 110111110011101010 10011011110 111110111 1101110100101 1111110101100111 11 1110111010010001101 0101011 1011 11001111011101110 11 110011111111111 011 111010100111010 00110101010 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 388
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; such, each, what, who, i, and, hear, of, you, see, mountains, sea, some, others, cape, or, wait, at, them, water, in, us, o, have, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words such, what, who, i, the, others, wait, you, and, each are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, you 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 race, earth, myself are repeated).

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