This is an analysis of A Song by Walt Whitman.

COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaa XXaaXaa Xaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,7,4,
  • Metre: 110101001000 1010110101101101 101010101 001011 00111011 10101011110110100 01001010100111110 010 101010001001101110 1 101011 10101011 1110110100011111 1111111011 001011 0011001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

make, i, of, you, for

Anaphora

i, with, by, for, in

Epiphora

comrades