This is an analysis of To One Shortly To Die by Walt Whitman.

FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die--Let others tell you what they please, I cannot…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba bbcXXXX XcXXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,7,7,
  • Metre: 0101110111001011 110111011111110 0100 1101110011111010111 10111110111110 1111011111111010 11100110110 111111110110 1011010110100010010 01011001001 0110100110000 0111010010101 1111110011 1011111101111 11110100111101011 101 101100110100010000 1110101101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

you, i

Anaphora

i, you

Epiphora

it

Anadiplosis

you