This is an analysis of Tears by Walt Whitman.
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbabaXXbXbXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 17,
- Metre: 111 00101011 1011101010101 110110111100 1100100101 110111100101 110101111101 10110111011 1101010010011010 1 1111011011101 1001 11101110011011001 10101 101111111101101000 10 0111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
tears, in, that, o
Epiphora
tears
