This is an analysis of The Great City by Walt Whitman.
The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXXb XXcXcccc aXccXbbccccc
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,12,
- Metre: 01101101010101101101001000110 10101001011010101000010 101001011001011101001001 10100111011101110010 1010011001010 1010100101010011 10101100101111000111010 111000101010010111 1100011100001 101110110001 1011010100110 1010011101010100100001010 1111101110100100110101101 111010010111001000010100 101000110110111011010011111011 110110010011001101 11010001010001 110101011010 110101001000101101 1110010010111001101 10100010011 10100010000101 101000100101 101000110101 101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
of, place, nor, and, where, to, in, city, stands
Anaphora
nor, where
Epiphora
men, stands
