This is an analysis of As The Time Draws Nigh by Walt Whitman.
AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,
A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX XXXab bXaX
- Stanza lengths: 2,5,4,
- Metre: 101111001 010101111101 1111 11100101111011011 1 011111111110110 1001 111111101010 11100110010011100 0111 11111000011001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, o
Anaphora
i
