This is an analysis of Broadway by Walt Whitman.
What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
What passions, winnings, losses, ardors, swim thy waters!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXbXaXXc
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 11001011111 1101010101110 11010111011 110010010101 11010111010 110101010010011111 1111110111010001 110111011111 100101010101 1101010101110010 101 1100101001110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
what, thy, thou
Anaphora
what, thou
