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Whitmans O chieftain My chieftain And Dickinsons swear is a Thing with Feathers America experienced profound changes during the mid 1800s. New technologies and ideas helped the res publica grow, while the Civil War ripped the area apart. During this tumultuous period, two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period, as good as universal insight about life. Although polar opposites in personality, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created similar poetry. Dickinsons consent is a Thing with Feathers and Whitmans O Captain My Captain share many qualities. intrust is a Thing with Feathers and O Captain My Captain contain a similar scansion. Both have a preponderantly iambic meter. The unaccented beat followed by the accented beat creates a rising meter. Each poem also contains notable exceptions to the iambic meter. In Hope is a Thing with Feathers, the first line Hope is the thing contains a trochee followed by an iamb. O Captain My Captain contains even more exceptions to the iambic meter. pedigree 5, But O heart heart heart consists of an imperfect root followed by two spondees, or feet with two equally accented syllables. Both field 6 O the bleeding drops of red and line 8 Fallen cold and dead have trochaic meters with an imperfect root at the end. The last 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... Whitmans O Captain My Captain And Dickinsons Hope is a Thing with FWhitmans O Captain My Captain And Dickinsons Hope is a Thing with Feathers America experienced profound changes during the mid 1800s. New technologies and ideas helped the nation grow, while the Civil War ripped the nation apart. During this tumultuous period, two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period, as strong as universal insight about life. Although polar opposit es in personality, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created similar poetry. Dickinsons Hope is a Thing with Feathers and Whitmans O Captain My Captain share many qualities.Hope is a Thing with Feathers and O Captain My Captain contain a similar scansion. Both have a preponderantly iambic meter. The unaccented beat followed by the accented beat creates a rising meter. Each poem also contains notable exceptions to the iambic meter. In Hope is a Thing with Feathers, the first line Hope is the thing contains a trochee followed by an iamb. O Captain My Captain contains even more exceptions to the iambic meter. task 5, But O heart heart heart consists of an imperfect root followed by two spondees, or feet with two equally accented syllables. Both tie 6 O the bleeding drops of red and line 8 Fallen cold and dead have trochaic meters with an imperfect root at the end. The counterbalance of the poem has an iambic meter until the last two lines Walk the deck my Captain lies, /Fallen cold a nd dead. The iambic meter...