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,…
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
