This is an analysis of One Hour To Madness And Joy by Walt Whitman.

ONE hour to madness and joy!
O furious! O confine me not!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd dXde aeXXd febecXXg hXXhcafXga
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,8,10,
  • Metre: 11001011 110010111 100111101 1111011011011 10101010010110101 11011010 101001110 1100111011111 10010010101111001001 0010001 1001010111011001 101101011110110100 0101 101001110111111 011010 101110101110111 100010100110101011 101 10101100101001010 1010101011 10101001110111010111 1100110001 1101001100 100110001010111 01101101101100 010100101010 001010010001101001 01100101011 00100101 010010010110010110 0111001011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

o, to, you, and, from, with

Anaphora

what, o, i, to