This is an analysis of As At Thy Portals Also Death by Walt Whitman.

AS at thy portals also death,
Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXbXXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11110101 100110110001 010001100001100100 00101111011101 1101011001111001 111010010 11111000001011101 0110010 0000110100100001011 10101 1101010101110111 1101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

to, i

Anaphora

to, i