This is an analysis of The Mystic Trumpeter by Walt Whitman.
HARK! some wild trumpeter--some strange musician,
Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cdb XefggXab daXdcfXdX fh digjklfkgd Xggmm dbhfnhcXom XfbcifjppqiX Xokdqinfaffcbb Xbqld gcbddXd dbdeXd
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,8,9,2,10,5,10,12,14,5,7,6,
- Metre: 11110011010 100010110010101 111100100011111 11010101011 1101100101 1101001100110 11010101101 110101010101 110100100010 11010110110101100 101 11011111110101 111101 11001111101 1111011101 010101010100101 01010111011 11010101010101 11010111010 1101111001011010 1 10110011011 1011001111001 1011010101 1111011101011 10110111101011010 100110 111100111010010 1 1101001100100101010 101101010 110101011101 110100110010110101 11011001100111 10110011111 1100101010101010 1101010100101 0101110111 1101111001010101 110010101011 110110010101111011 101 01010101010 1101011111011101 11010101011111 1 110111110111111 110101001001 11011101110111 1011001011100 101101001110101 110111011010101 0101 11011100110101010 111010001 11011101011101100 101 0101010101011011 1 111100111011110110 10001 110010111101001101 11111111010100 10 11110111011 11001110111 1100101010101000 11 11010001101010011001 11 1101000010001010101 110 1001011111010100 1101010101010001 1001010001 11001111 1001011101 1011010100111 111101111100010 1111010011 1101010101 0101110011 10010011000010011 1001010101010111 011101001111 101101010011111 10010100101 110100101111011 1 010101010111 1101010110010001 0101000101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 100
Repeated words/phrases
i, see, love, all, and, that, of, thou, joy
Anaphora
now, i, love
Epiphora
love, last, joy
Anadiplosis
mine, joy
