This is an analysis of To A Common Prostitute by Walt Whitman.
To a Common Prostitute
BE composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XXbbXb bcXXac
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,
- Metre: 0010101 0010110111110100110 110 110101111011 1101001010111010 1011111010101101 1 11101011010111111 110100010011 111111010101111 11101100010011111 011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
you, to, for, and, i
Anaphora
not
Epiphora
you
