This is an analysis of Out Of The Rolling Ocean, The Crowd by Walt Whitman.

OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
Whispering, I love you, before long I die,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb XcdXXXXXdc
  • Stanza lengths: 5,10,
  • Metre: 1001010011011001 10011101111 1110011100111011 11111111111 1111110011 1111111111 0101001011 1111011011111111010 010110001001101 11111101010010010111 11110100101110101011 10 01010010111101010 10101 1001111111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, you, to, we, for, us

Anaphora

for

Epiphora

you