This is an analysis of O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy by Walt Whitman.

O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 111101 0111011100101 1011011100111101 001 111010100111111 10 1111101001111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

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