This is an analysis of To A Stranger by Walt Whitman.
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaXXbXXacXccX
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 10101111110011011 110111101111100101 1001 1111101010101 10011111110100100 101 111010010110101 1101110111010111 1011110110 111010011111111 101111001 1110101110101111011 11101 110111111101101 1101001111111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
i, you, with, me, to, of
Anaphora
i
Anadiplosis
you
