This is an analysis of Sparkles From The Wheel by Walt Whitman.

WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day,
Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching--I pause aside with…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXX bXaXcdE acXXc bXdccE
  • Stanza lengths: 3,7,5,6,
  • Metre: 1010101110111 0111010101011010 0 10101010010 01101101100011 10101100100011111 0101111001110011 11 11010100101 10001 011100101111011 011101101111 1010101 1110011001010001011 011010 01110011001010 0010101001110100 1 0111001010111 0101011100101001 10001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

he, and

Anaphora

the