This is an analysis of Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman.
BEAT! beat! drums!--Blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows--through doors--burst like a ruthless force,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdXXeca AbeXXXdfXa AXXcefXa
- Stanza lengths: 9,10,8,
- Metre: 1111101 101011110101 00010111001010 000110100100 1101110110011110 01 101010101100111000 1 11111111111101 1111101 100100101001001001 1101110110010110 110111 110010111101101011 010 101001010100101 101010010101010 1 110101001110101 1111101 111011110000 110101101011 11011010011 11011011010010 11001001011110100 101 111111001111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
his, you, blow, no, would
Anaphora
into, would, mind
