This is an analysis of Bivouac On A Mountain Side by Walt Whitman.

I see before me now a traveling army halting,
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 11011101001010 01001101011010010 010101001001010101 1001010100111001 01001101011110111010 01001011101011100 11010101111011010100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

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Anaphora

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