This is an analysis of Long, Too Long America by Walt Whitman.

Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 1110100 100111011011011010010 111101010010010100010111001 1100111001111011101 1101111101111011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

and, to, now

Epiphora

are