This is an analysis of The Ship Starting by Walt Whitman.

LO! THE unbounded sea!
On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails--an ample…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 100101 101011010101110 110010010 0100100111111110 011001110 10101010101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6