Poets To Come by Walt Whitman: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Poets To Come that begins with:

POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaab bc XcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011001001001 1010010111101111 11011100101010101 011 010111110111110 11111111010011010 1101010100111010010 110111000101101010 1001011110101 10001011010 01001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Poets To Come;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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