The Ox Tamer by Walt Whitman: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Ox Tamer that begins with:

IN a faraway northern county, in the placid, pastoral region,
Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbXcddbcbbXXXedcfedXbbbffcda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001011010001010010 1110101011000010100 10 11110111101110 10 101010100111111 1 101100110110110 111101 0101101010010101 111110101110101 1 11101101010101111 10011110 111111010001 11111100100110101 111101101101110 01011110 1111010011101 1 101011111101101 11 111111111111 11001 11111101111011 101101 110010101011111010 0 11101010101001101 10011101 101110100101011001001 1010101100111 0010101001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1713
  • Average number of words per stanza: 281
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, see, they, how, i are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Ox Tamer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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