This is an analysis of To The States by Walt Whitman.
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXbaXcc
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1010010101111110 110011110010010 111111111000100 10101000111101111 1010 1110100110110010 101 110101111111111 10 0100101001011011 11001 111111111101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Epiphora
awake
