This is an analysis of Walt Whitman's Caution by Walt Whitman.

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 00111010011010001 0110110 10100010011001 1100111011000110 1001010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

of, once

Anaphora

once