This is an analysis of In Midnight Sleep by Walt Whitman.

IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded--of that indescribable…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXA bXcXXA bXXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,6,5,
  • Metre: 011101001010 0011100100100110100 1 001111010101 111111 010101110 011101001111011 0101 1010101111010110 01 111111 111111011011 11010110010010101 0010 10111011101111 1111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

of, i, dream

Anaphora

of