This is an analysis of The Runner by Walt Whitman.

ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner;
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 1011101110 101110001001 101011110111 01011111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

he

Anaphora

he