This is an analysis of Delicate Cluster by Walt Whitman.

DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1001010101 100111111110 1011111101010 10 111111101010 11001010010110 111001011101110 101010111010 1101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

of, ah, my

Anaphora

ah