This is an analysis of To The East And To The West by Walt Whitman.

TO the East and to the West;
To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaAXaaA
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 0011001 00100111101010 001000010010011 1001100111110110 11 1010101011001001 1001100001 01101011101110100 11
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

to, of

Anaphora

to