This is an analysis of The Sobbing Of The Bells by Walt Whitman.

THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,
The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 01000101011101 010010010010 11111100010 11010101111101 01010 0100111100101010 10 1110010001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Anaphora

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