This is an analysis of Song For All Seas, All Ships by Walt Whitman.
TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,
Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcX dcaeeXXcee bad ccXXXXfXdcf
- Stanza lengths: 7,10,3,11,
- Metre: 010111000 0110011001011110 0011000101101101 10111 010110110110 11010110100110 10101 0110111101101010 10 00110110111110011 101 110001111110101 11 1111011001011100 10 1011110101001 0100010011 100101101111111010 100101110111011 101 111111011010 111001100100110 111010100110110101 1101101 010001010111010010101 11 1001110110101011 1111110110 10100010101010111 01010101001011101110 1111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, thee, all
Anaphora
of, ever, flaunt
Epiphora
thee
