This is an analysis of To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman.

THEE for my recitative!
Thee in the driving storm, even as now--the snow--the winter-day…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdebXfgceXdXbbfcaaXgb XgchXbhXgb
  • Stanza lengths: 24,10,
  • Metre: 1111000 1001011011010101 010 1011001101010111 010 111001010111001 11001110110101110 100111 1100110111110000 10 1101011101 1111010101010010 0111011100111 1101101110100100 111 1101010100100100 111111111100010 1001010010110100 100 1111011101101111 1 0110101011101 111101010101 1111010101 11010 111101110101101 11 11010101011010011 111011 1010011111010 1101010101110101 1101111101 11001010101 0011101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

thee, thy, of

Anaphora

thee, thy, by