This is an analysis of O Star Of France by Walt Whitman.
O STAR of France!
The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcde fagXXh iii cjki glaXdjdhi be XadXaa ieiblfXk
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,3,4,9,2,6,8,
- Metre: 1101 0100111111 1111110111 100101101010101 11010100111 11111 1101 1101011100110101 01010101011100 0101001010110010 1011 0100010101 11011101 1101001010101 1100101001 1000111101001101101 1 110001111101 11110 0101110111010010 011111011011010 1 01110101001111 0101011101101101 111 0111111101001 01110111111 011011 111101111101 111101110101 1101010101 1001010110010 100100101010 10011001101101 10010110001 111101 10010101 001100111010 1111110010101 0101001110101010 10100 0111111101 010011011110 11010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
of, that, in, thou, thy
Anaphora
star, in
Epiphora
land
