This is an analysis of Night On The Prairies by Walt Whitman.

NIGHT on the prairies;
The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdX ca Xef dXXX XeXggXbXXfg
  • Stanza lengths: 5,2,3,4,11,
  • Metre: 11010 01001001010111 010100110110 11111111110111111 1010101 11011010011 1011111010 11011000110 0111110111010101 10 1110011101111011 0100 1110010111111100 0111001011 1101101101001110 101110 1110010101011101 11001 1100011111011001 111110101101111 1010010111111100 01 1111111001010110110 11111011100010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, how, same, of, to, as

Anaphora

the

Epiphora

earth