This is an analysis of Over The Carnage by Walt Whitman.
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
Be not dishearten'd--Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcca aXd ef XXXX bd gfgee fX eXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,3,2,4,2,5,2,3,
- Metre: 10010101001 0101001011010010 1 1111101010100111 101000100 100100111100100 11110100101001000 1 11011010010 0100101101010111 10101010010011 01101101010101100010 11 1100110110100011 01001000111001 1001010110110011 01010100010110110 010 0110111110110 001001001010 00100001001011 11111111011010 11001101100101011 01100010101010 11101010101111 11011101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
of, be, from, you
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
yet, victorious
Anadiplosis
one
