This is an analysis of Despairing Cries by Walt Whitman.
DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night,
The sad voice of Death--the call of my nearest lover, putting forth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcb XXXccaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,7,
- Metre: 01011100011111 0110101011010101 01010 01111001111 111111101111010 1101110111011 101101011011001 11010 101100111011111 11010100110101001 110 011111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
i
Epiphora
me
