This is an analysis of Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All by Walt Whitman.
PENSIVE, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of All,
Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXXbXdeXXXXbXddXeXccd
- Stanza lengths: 25,
- Metre: 10101101101001 10010110101100010 110 101111010010110 1110010101111 010111111111111 111110 111010110111 11101111110110 1111000111111101 1110110111110 110100 11110110010110 11 1101111100100111 1010101 110011110010111100 11 00110110010111001 0101001101111101 101010 011010011111111 1001 1011111111110101 01001001101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
on, she, and, you, precious, in, give, me, o
Anaphora
as, and, in
Epiphora
hence
