This is an analysis of On Old Man's Thought Of School by Walt Whitman.
AN old man's thought of School;
An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xc ddcdX Xda XXXXX Xbaa
- Stanza lengths: 3,2,5,3,5,4,
- Metre: 111101 11110010100111101 10 1101111 11010111010101 111111001 1101010111 10010101010101 101110010001 10110 100101111 100100101010010 100101 1110001 1111010110001011 101111011101 10010111010101010 10 110100 11011001101 0111101100110 011111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
these
Anaphora
an, only
