This is an analysis of the poem Walt Whitman's Caution that begins with:
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 00111010011010001 0110110 10100010011001 1100111011000110 1001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, once are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word once is repeated.
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- summary of Walt Whitman's Caution;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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