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When I Heard The Learn D Astronomer Analysis

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The poems “Oh Looking up by Chance at the Constellations” by Robert Frost and “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman have many similarities and differences in their themes and structures. Frost’s and Whitman’s poems are written in free verse which means that there is no defined pattern or rhyme within the poems. The major difference between the poems structure is the use of end stop and enjambment within the poems. Frost’s poem uses both enjambment and end stop throughout the poem. For example, “The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,
Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud.” (5-6). Whitman’s poem uses mostly enjambment until the very end of the poem which is the only line of the poem with uses end

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