This is an analysis of Two Rivulets by Walt Whitman.

TWO Rivulets side by side,
Two blended, parallel, strolling tides,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXX aXXX bX XXX bX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,4,2,3,2,
  • Metre: 1100111 110101101 0101001001110 10010101 110101010111 10101100101 01101 1001110111 100111001101 011011110101 011101011101 11010101010 1101010011 11110101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, all, in

Anaphora

two, in