This is an analysis of Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances by Walt Whitman.
OF the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all--that we may be deluded,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdaaaceXfXgagXfXfbeXfXdXbf
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 00100100100 0001001011110010 11001011111010101 11001000101001001010 10011010100111 1011010 010111101001101 111011101010101 1011001 11011100110001111 1 11011101111011100 1010011111101011 1101011011111 011110110111 101001001101 01110101110001011 101111 11111100111011101 101 1010101000111110 110111011 111100111001011101 0101010 11010010001001100100 0101 11111010011101 10101110101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
that, of, may, be, and, they, as, me, i
Anaphora
of, that
