This is an analysis of A Child Said, What Is The Grass? by Walt Whitman.
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
hands;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcd ae fcdb Xe XXbcXg b hegfhh fbeb bbi eeih efe XXccf bfX
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,4,2,6,1,6,4,3,4,3,5,3,
- Metre: 01110011000101 1 1111001111110 010111 11010010110101010 1110 111000100001 01011100010001 100101100001011 11101111 11101001010011 001010 1110001011010 1011001011110 1 1001111011 101010011100 1101001 110101010011101 1000111101 0101010001011 0100111011110 01011011010101 011101101101 11110101 01010100001101 10 10101001011 101010011101 11011011101001 1101111100101 110 11110101010111 110 10101111101011 1011011 1111101001111 111110100101 10 11011111 01011101011 101011011011111 1010010 11010101 1110110110010 101010001101011 100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, it, be, from, may, and
Anaphora
it, and, what
Epiphora
laps
