This is an analysis of Hours Continuing Long by Walt Whitman.
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted,
Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbbXccdeeXbXeaXdbXfXfa
- Stanza lengths: 25,
- Metre: 1001001111010 100011101001011000 110111011011 1010100111111010 010111010111010 110100101 100100101011101011 0111111001011 10111010111111011 011110001 1011001011011001011 111 10010111001011010110 0110 01101101101001010 101 011111111110010010 101010111110011 01 1111001010110100 101101 111010101001000110 11011101110 111010100101101110 10010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
hours, i, like, he
Anaphora
hours
Epiphora
am
