This is an analysis of To You by Walt Whitman.

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of
dreams,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbdefgg dhcid hdjd dddkddldik ilamfmmi dnkhXnn dodXcekejj jdjddfd odnd jdceachfn gXmkjXme
  • Stanza lengths: 10,5,4,10,8,7,10,7,4,9,8,
  • Metre: 01011111110010 1 1110101001010101 111 101110111110 10100111010101 11111001011 111100110101 11101101010 1010010 010111111101111 0110 1100111011 111101011111110 11 1110101011 111111101101 1111101111110 1011 101111110101 111011111011 11110011111100 10 1111101011011 101001 111010011101110 1001001001 110111101011101010 1011101000010 1011011011010 1001 001001010100100 1101 11110011111010 1001101 011001010011100 1100010010 1111110110011 1111111111001 10111 1111001111001 1111010100100 111010111010 10010101 0100111 101010101111 10111111011 1001010010010 10001010110101 01011101101 011001010010100 111011111 010100101011001 1011111101 1010100111010110 01 1011011001110110 001 111100010110001 110101101110101 11 11111100101011101 10001 110100100111101 1101001001 010111111110 1100111110101 101111010001011 0110100011 11010011001010 01010101111110101 10100 1011001111010100 1101010 01010110111010 0100 111111111010101 1101110001 1111100011010 10010 110100101000101 11101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 84

Repeated words/phrases

you, i, should, have, of, from, in, no, for, these, or

Anaphora

i, none, no, these

Epiphora

you

Anadiplosis

you