This is an analysis of O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman.

O BITTER sprig! Confession sprig!
In the bouquet I give you place also--I bind you in,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabX bcc Xca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,3,3,
  • Metre: 11010101 00011111101110 010110110100 11110111 111110110101000010 101 111110111 111111011010110 1001 1010011101100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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