This is an analysis of After The Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman.
AFTER the Sea-Ship--after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXcaabXcXXbc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10011100101 100111101111 010100100110010111 1001010101001 1001010011001010 110101100101001 01110101011001 101101011001010 1011010010010100 10 01001110110101100 10011 010010010010111010 1000101101001100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
after, waves, and
Anaphora
after, waves
