This is an analysis of A Sight In Camp by Walt Whitman.

A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXdcb XccXeX dd XXaXe
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,2,5,
  • Metre: 01010011111 101110111010 11110011101110110 1 111111010111100 10 101010110101010 111010101001 100111101 101101001001001 11010 1111001111101101 111100101 11111111 1001011111111110 1111101110 100101111110110 100101100 1111111110101001 00101 110111001110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

in, blanket, and, who, you, face, of, i

Anaphora

as