This is an analysis of the poem To A Common Prostitute that begins with:
To a Common Prostitute
BE composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXbbXb bcXXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 0010110111110100110 110 110101111011 1101001010111010 1011111010101101 1 11101011010111111 110100010011 111111010101111 11101100010011111 011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; you, to, for, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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