This is an analysis of One Sweeps By by Walt Whitman.
ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train,
All emblematic of peace--not a soldier or menial among them.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX XXab XaabX
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,5,
- Metre: 11101011011 110100110101100010 111101110111 1101010000111 011101001001001 01 111101101110111 110 1110001001001110 010101 1111110101011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
by, three
Anaphora
three
