This is an analysis of A Hand-Mirror by Walt Whitman.
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)
Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXbXbX
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1011010011100001 11101011011 11010111010011101 11101111 0101100010110001 110011110101100 1010101001010 11010111001 110101110 1111111010011 1011001011111 1001111010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
it, such, no
Anaphora
such
Epiphora
step
