This is an analysis of Longings For Home by Walt Whitman.
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcbbXbdeXcffeceXbgchfgXbXgeeciabcigjciiXXXijhifd
- Stanza lengths: 50,
- Metre: 1101110001111 1110110111011011101 11011111101101111 10 1 110 1011111010111101010100 1 1 11 10101010010010000101001 0 101001 110101100101011011101 01010011101011110011011 0 10111101001110 110100011101011010010 01100110111111011101010 1110110101110101010 110 10110010010010 1111101101001111111110 11 10101010101101 0101001010101110 0101010110001110101 1 101 010101010101001010111 0 100100110100110011 101101001111010010101 10 01000100010100110001110 11 1 0100101 0101001001010101001010 11 1 010101100010010 0101110110110110 10 1 101001001111001 11011001011110 111110111111011001 10000101111100010100 110001001101101101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
o, south, and, i, see, with, of
Anaphora
o, the
Anadiplosis
again
