This is an analysis of The City Dead-House by Walt Whitman.
BY the City Dead-House, by the gate,
As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaaXabaXXcbaXXcXcXacbX
- Stanza lengths: 23,
- Metre: 101011101 11010010110010 11001111111011101 1 01101001011011 10 0011001011010111001 1111010110111101 1101111010010110 100011 101011101110011 110 1010111101010101 111100010010100101 1011100101 110101110111001 11011000010101 010101111011001 1111011111101 1101101011101 101100101101111 1101 1011001011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
i, nor, that, house, all, of
Anaphora
that
