This is an analysis of That Last Invocation by Walt Whitman.

AT the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXa XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,3,3,
  • Metre: 101100 001001001001 001001010010011 1 11010 11110001 00101001010010 110111 10001010 10111101 1011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

of, from

Anaphora

from, strong