This is an analysis of Adieu To A Soldier by Walt Whitman.

ADIEU, O soldier!
You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXac abXaaaXc
  • Stanza lengths: 9,8,
  • Metre: 01110 1001010111 010101001 010100010101100 1100110010001010 1 10111101010111 110111 0111010 01111 11000111111 11100101011 11110101 101101000101 11001011100101010 11010101011111 01010101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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