This is an analysis of As I Ebb'D With The Ocean Of Life by Walt Whitman.
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As I ebb'd with the ocean of life,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXAXXbcbdeX XXfeXgbcAh Xddgidid jjgkdXcXfj lfdgl Xamgl gdi Xfbgc igm iXmX XfigaaXlgfbbdmhillfmkihdamd
- Stanza lengths: 11,10,8,10,5,5,3,5,3,4,27,
- Metre: 1 1110001001 11100111 11110100100011100 1110111100 101110100110101 11010010110110 110010110010111010 11101011001101 0101001111010110 11001 1010110100011010 111010 111001110110 11010110110110 11 1010010101010101 1001111110110100 110100111110 11100111 111010101101 1 111001111 111001010011101 1101010010110011 101010100101110110 1111011011010111 011111010 1011111100111 1101100101 01011111101011 011101111110010111 111110101011111 1101111001001111 1100011010100 0111010101001011 11 01010010010110011110 100100111100101 101111101011011010 1101111101 10101001100100101 1101111 01111010110111 1 11011101 1100110001011110 111 11010110111111 11101001 111101110101 10101110 11100 1111011001000110 110111 11110101101 11110101111110 11110111110 110111110101 111111110110 11110 11011111111 1011111101000100 1110 1 1100101001 1111011110 1001111011110111 10111111001111111 111001 111001111 1101111101010111 111100111 1111101010 1101110 101110101011 1001010100110 101110 1010010111010010 00101101001 101000101010101011 1111101001001011 011011111110110 110110 111111101010 1111111100110 1010110111111 1101 11110110 0101111101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 90
Repeated words/phrases
i, as, of, that, to, me, you, too, not, and, we
Anaphora
as, where, you, i, see, just
Epiphora
you
Anadiplosis
gather, you
