This is an analysis of 1861 by Walt Whitman.

ARM’D year! year of the struggle!
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcdefgXfdeffXbcgXbadda
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 1110010 110111010110111001 11111101010110100 010 11011011011010 1000101110 0110101101110010 01111 11111010100110010 100 1100111110010110 010100101111100100 100010 101110010101011 1010 1001001010110100 1000 11001110101011101 001010 11001010111001011 101010101 11111111100110110 10011 1110011101101 111001101001110 10111001010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

year, as, or, your