This is an analysis of Patroling Barnegat by Walt Whitman.
WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaaaaXXaaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101101110 10010010010101100 101001010010110 1111110010010 100111111010 110111101110 110101001110 1101111011010 1001001010011010 111001100111101 1001011110100 01011111111010 01011110001010 11010010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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