This is an analysis of A Woman Waits For Me by Walt Whitman.
A WOMAN waits for me--she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba cdXceXffgh iXi jXkkgj XifeicX jlXdXk kmmkcXlk hibmijXmmkmfX
- Stanza lengths: 3,10,3,6,7,6,8,13,
- Metre: 010111101110010 11010010101001000 11010 1011 101101100100001 1000 1011100101000100 1 111000100 101011001001 101001011010001 110101110011100100 01 011011111100100000 11 0110101111100 1100111001010 1011001111101101 1110101011 11111011111011 111111001100001100 110 111111111 11100111011101 111010110011 111011110111 0101010101 11100011111111 010011 111101110 11011111110 111111111110111111 101 010011101011 101001101010111 0011101111 11110110001111 1111110110101011 110101111011111 101110 11111000110010101 1110111010111101010 011 111101110011 0111010100 1111010010100110100 01101011111101011 10010110 0110101110011011 1101011110101110 110100100000101111 100001 1111010010100011 1101001010111 111110100111 1010011110011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
lacking, all, of, me, and, i, they, you, for
Anaphora
all, i, they
Epiphora
earth, me, you
