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…
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
