This is an analysis of I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing by Walt Whitman.
I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbcdcefafXXXeXd
- Stanza lengths: 19,
- Metre: 1100101001110 10110101110010 011001001110010101 1 101111010111011 1110101101011001 10101010111111 1 111101001010010101 10100101 110011111001011 001100011101111 110110110101100 1001010100100111010 11 11111011101001010 101000111 10010110101010101 11101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
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