As Toilsome I Wander'D Virginia's Woods by Walt Whitman: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem As Toilsome I Wander'D Virginia's Woods that begins with:

As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn) ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXB XXcaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100101 0010010111111110 11101001010010 1001011101001100111101 010011101111011011 1010111101101 1101111011 111111111100 100100100101100101 111110010110101100101 101100110110010100101 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, on, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word comrade at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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