This is an analysis of The Ox Tamer by Walt Whitman.

IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region,
Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbXcddbcbbXXXedcfedXbbbffcda
  • Stanza lengths: 33,
  • Metre: 001011010001010010 1110101011000010100 10 11110111101110 10 101010100111111 1 101100110110110 111101 0101101010010101 111110101110101 1 11101101010101111 10011110 111111010001 11111100100110101 111101101101110 01011110 1111010011101 1 101011111101101 11 111111111111 11001 11111101111011 101101 110010101011111010 0 11101010101001101 10011101 101110100101011001001 1010101100111 0010101001010010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

some, see, they, how, i