This is an analysis of What Weeping Face by Walt Whitman.

WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window?
Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 110101100010 110111001 00111001111 00010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

it

Anaphora

is