This is an analysis of The Indications by Walt Whitman.
THE indications, and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabcdefbaga adXXhc iceja cckbXca XXkX XiX cdjacejf heicXag
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,5,7,4,3,8,7,
- Metre: 0101011001 01100101001100 1110111010101 1111010100010010100 010111 01001010101100011 11010010010101001 11 0100101010010010100 011110010110101 10010111110110010 1 01011011001001 01011010101100111 101011010010010 01001001 11001001100110010110 11101 0100010100100110100 11010100010010 010101101101101 1010101010110110 1 10111111010110 01011011101 0110111000101010100 10 010010001000100101 10 0101010111001010 01101010010101 10010100 100111101110010 101 01011001010100100100 0101001001001000101 11010100100100 0100110111110 11101110100101011 1010100010101101 1 1101101011010 111110111 01010011010101010 111 1011111110101100 11 11100101001001011 111110010010101 01100101 01101011011010 111001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
of, words, and, singer, poems, they, to
Anaphora
the, they, to
