This is an analysis of O Sun Of Real Peace by Walt Whitman.

O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabccXXXdXXbaXd
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1101111001 1111001111010101 1010010011001101 111110101001 11010111101010110 110010100101010 10 11011010010100 11011100010101010 11001101101 100101011011111 111111011 111100110111111 111100110111001001 011 110101101101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

o, and, i, me

Anaphora

o