This is an analysis of To The Leaven'D Soil They Trod by Walt Whitman.
TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last;
(Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor the dead,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaccbXXXdcXdXXXXdXXbd
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 00101111011101 110110111101 1101101010101001 1 0010010010011010 110010101 00100110001010100100 1101 00101001001010011 1 0010010101100111 0010001101001010 00111011101001 0010010010001010 11 0011110011101100 1 101011011101 0100101001110100100 0101111010010101 0101111011101001 1011001001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
nor, and, to
Anaphora
to, the
