This is an analysis of Song At Sunset by Walt Whitman.

SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me!
Hour prophetic--hour resuming the past!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd Xeff eXbbghab iffjkXj blkmkXcnX okkeepffdi ifdXmk dhjo gffhbXapXlko kffmmhm nkX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,8,7,9,10,6,4,12,7,3,
  • Metre: 100101101101 100101001001 01011101100 11111011111 10101110010 101110010 100101100101 0101001001001 01001001 01001111101000101 010001000100110100100 11 0100010101010010 0100010101000101010 1100101 0100110111111001 001 0010101010100 00100010010 00010001 00111011 00011100000111 00011001 100001 100001 0101010111001 01011010 01010110101 001111101111101 00100110110111 0000100111 01110110111110111 100111011111 11111001010001 1011100101 101111111011111 11 1010111100001 1011111011010 11 101010101001110 1 1010011001100 110010001 11100101101100110 1101001 111111101011001 010 1110011011111110 1110011100011010 1001 111101001011 111101010 111010010 11111111111011 111100101110011000 1 11110100101101101 00101 11101011011110111 11 110110111110010101 0101101111100101 10 11010001011 1101010001 111001010010 1100101 111111101000101 111111110101001100 101 110110111 1110101011101010 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 74

Repeated words/phrases

of, illustrious, in, to, how, on, and, i, too, as, or

Anaphora

illustrious, in, wonderful, to, how, o, i, as

Epiphora

things, on