This is an analysis of The World Below The Brine by Walt Whitman.

THE world below the brine;
Forests at the bottom of the sea--the branches and leaves,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbaaXXXcdXcXdXba
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 010101 10101000101011 1101101101101 1001001011 100101111101110 1011010 110101011010110 101000010 10100010101011010 10010 0111010101111100 001 01011010010010110 1011 1011011101101 101110111101 01100111001011 1101111011 011001010101110 1
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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