This is an analysis of As I Ponder'D In Silence by Walt Whitman.

AS I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbbbcXXb cXXcaXcXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 11,10,
  • Metre: 1110010 0100111001001001 01001011001011 1000101110 010010011 1010101101 010100100101 11001110101 111101111100101 11001010100101 01000110 0011110 11101101110101101 110 101101001001011 01100011100 110101101101010 101 111110101100101 11111001010 101101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

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