This is an analysis of The 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: X XXXXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,3,
  • Metre: 101100 001001001001 0010010100100111 11010 11110001 00101001010010 1100111 10001010 10111101 101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

of, from

Anaphora

from, let, strong