This is an analysis of As Toilsome I Wander'D Virginia's Woods by Walt Whitman.

As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXB XXcaB
  • Stanza lengths: 7,5,
  • Metre: 1101100101 0010010111111110 11101001010010 1001011101001100111101 010011101111011011 1010111101101 1101111011 111111111100 100100100101100101 111110010110101100101 101100110110010100101 1101111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, i, on, and