Comparison Of Whitman And Dickenson Poems

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"O Captain! My Captain!" contains even more exceptions to the iambic meter. Line 5, ?But O heart! heart! heart!' consists of an imperfect root followed by two spondees, or feet with two equally accented syllables. Both Line 6 ?O the bleeding drops of red' and line 8 ?Fallen cold and dead' have trochaic meters with an imperfect root at the end...
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The remainder of the poem has an iambic meter until the last two lines: ?Walk the deck my Captain lies, /Fallen cold and dead.' The iambic meter makes the poem rise until the end where the switch to trochaic meter helps emphasize the conclusion of the poem. Along with the irregularities in meter, neither poem has a regular line length or rhyming pattern...
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