This is an analysis of City Of Ships by Walt Whitman.
CITY of ships!
(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbXcdefXXfXXcdXbef
- Stanza lengths: 21,
- Metre: 1001 10111011 101001111111 10001111011 101001110101 100011001011001 1011010100011011001 101011 1001011100110010110 11100101001010010 01111011101100110 111 11010110111110 011010111110001 110101011011101011 010 01111010111111101 101 11110111011111 01110111010101 111011111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
ships, o, city, of, and, me, i, you, have, peace
Anaphora
o, city
Epiphora
ships, here
