This is an analysis of Joy, Shipmate, Joy! by Walt Whitman.

Joy! shipmate--joy!
(Pleas'd to my Soul at death I cry;)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AaXXXXA
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 1111 10111111 11011101 01110011 01011111 11010001 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

Anaphora

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