This is an analysis of Or From That Sea Of Time by Walt Whitman.

OR, from that Sea of Time,
Spray, blown by the wind--a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXaXXXXXcXa dcadbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 15,7,
  • Metre: 101101 111010101010111 110111001011101110 101100100101 10110111100010111 10111010001110100 10 10010101101001100 10 1101110111000 100000101111001 111110011111111 111110011111 1 1101001 1001001001 1011001010010 1001011101101 11110101111001 100101101111 1 10100101001011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

of, life, and