Darest Thou Now, O Soul by Walt Whitman: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Darest Thou Now, O Soul that begins with:

DAREST thou now, O Soul,
Walk out with me toward the Unknown Region,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX bbb acb Xcc XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111 11010100110 110101011101010 11111 1110110101 11010111111011 110111 1111001011 1101001101101001 1101101 1101010111 11010101110111 111111 0111110110 10101111110100101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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

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