This is an analysis of To Thee, Old Cause! by Walt Whitman.
TO thee, old Cause!
Thou peerless, passionate, good cause!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbbb XXXaaXbXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,9,
- Metre: 0111 11010001 110101010 1001010101 1001111111 111111110111000 10111 11110010101 110101 110100111101110 0100100101110101 0101010101010 01010101110100 11001111110111 100101111010111 1011010101010001 01001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
thee, for, war, thou, of
Anaphora
thou, with
Epiphora
cause, thee
