This is an analysis of From Far Dakota's Canons by Walt Whitman.

FROM far Dakota's cañons,
Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabc deXcXd bXfXceXXfgX XaXcebgcX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,6,11,9,
  • Metre: 010101 100101010101010 10 10010101100101110 010100 0100100010100100 0100100100010101010 001011010011010 110 0101011010011 010101110011 0100101111 0101010001 110101111101 110011 11010111100111 11 01010101110101 0111010101 01010101010 110101 10010101010 110010011101001100 110111 11010101010011 11111011110101010 1001100100111001100 10110100110101011010 1001101001010 110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

of, in

Anaphora

the