This is an analysis of When I Heard At The Close Of The Day by Walt Whitman.
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacdXeXbafgdbceadfXXXbagd
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 1111010011111001 0100010010110101 11110 1111100111100101 11110 101111110010011 0110010011010 11101100111110100 101 111001100111001 100011011011 111111111101101 10111110 1111101011111110 1110100111 1011010110011101 11 111111111010110 01000101 110101000101110100 11000010111 101111110111001100 011 001000101101101 011 10111001111111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
when, i, and, me, in
