This is an analysis of The Voice Of The Rain by Walt Whitman.

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabXaXXbbXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1111110011010 11011111011010 1101001101001 010111001001101001 100101101101011 101 1010101100110001 1110001101101011 101011111111011100 11111010 11100001110100100 101100100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, i, and

Anaphora

and