This is an analysis of The Prairie-Grass Dividing by Walt Whitman.

THE prairie-grass dividing--its special odor breathing,
I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXaXcbXXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01010100101010 10100010001010 010110011010101 01010101110 100101011111010 11111101100101 01101100 1001010100101110 1101 111100001001011100 101111 10111010100110 0100 101101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

demand, of, those, with

Anaphora

demand, those