This is an analysis of To The Man-Of-War-Bird by Walt Whitman.
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXabaX aXXcXX dcdbXXXc
- Stanza lengths: 7,6,8,
- Metre: 1111110101 10011101010 10110101100 110101111101 10111101010 1001010111111 110101101101 1111 100111110101 010101111101011 010101010101 010101100 1101100 1101011111 0101011111101 1101110111 11011001101101110 11111101110100 110101011101 0001010011111 111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
far, thou, and
Anaphora
the, thou
