This is an analysis of Spirit Whose Work Is Done by Walt Whitman.
SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours!
Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXXcdXdecfaXadXceXfbXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 1011011001010 101010111100101 10010111110101000 10 1001001011100101010 10 1010011011110 1001010 10010101111110 1 11010011011001 010111 1111010101010010 1010001111101101 1111010110010110 11101011100001000 100111101010 10010101001100111 100101011010111 10010111101111111 11 11111011111 111100101001110 10010 10111010111111 10010110010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
spirit, of, while, and, me
Anaphora
spirit, while, let
