This is an analysis of Bathed In War's Perfume by Walt Whitman.

BATHED in war's perfume--delicate flag!
(Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbba
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 101011001 1011010101101 101110101010110 10010 10101100101001101 1101 10111110001101 10111011010101 1101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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