This is an analysis of The Dalliance Of The Eagles by Walt Whitman.
SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXbccbcXaX
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 1001011100111 100101010101000010 01010011101010 0101010101011101 11011101011100 010010100111010 110010101110101 01001100011101010 10011111010110101 1 10100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
Anaphora
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