This is an analysis of The Dresser by Walt Whitman.
AN old man bending, I come, among new faces,
Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcaadeXffga XhaigjkciXaag abjijXg klbimbfmiX namlgl akccbXiXd iiiiijng nihc Xleim gbjX aaihXiif
- Stanza lengths: 12,13,7,10,6,9,8,4,5,4,8,
- Metre: 111101101110 01010010010010 111111011110111 0101101100101 10 010110111110101100 1 101001101001001 0110110110111011 110110110010010 011010110010110 01 1101111111111 1110111010110110 01 10011011001110011 1 0010111100110100 100101 1001011110110101 1 111111111110101 101 11010110010101111 10 101001010 1010110101111 11101001011100110 1 01010010110101100 1111111 0101110101110011 1001001011 111011011 1111011001010 11101100101 100100110111001110 00110111111101 011111001011111111 10101010011100011 10010101111011 011 110111 0111101011 111010111110100 1101001011111011 11111101010011101 111 111110101101101 0111111111010 01 0100100100101111 010 101010110100111 101 1110010110011 010110 001001010101 10101010101110101 1 11010010101111 101 01110101111110 101 1111110 110100111 10111111011100101 10 101011001 11010101001001011 10100101101011001 010 1001010101110011 1 111011111 0101010100010 1111100101110110 100101 101001010 010010111110110 0111011010101 11101010111111 11011101001001111 100101010101111 10 100101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 90
Repeated words/phrases
these, what, of, and, in, i
Anaphora
where, to
