This is an analysis of Assurances by Walt Whitman.

I NEED no assurances--I am a man who is preoccupied, of his own Soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside the hands and…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebffgehidicfgXgcgidXXdha
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 111010011011001010011 1111101001101011 1111000111010111 10001110010 1111101001100011100 10010001 11111110011010101100 0111011100 111110110100111 1110111011111 1010000111111111 111111010011111100 0 11110100110100101001 1010011011101011 1010010101010101 1111101000110111 01011101011010 10101010101 0111111010111001 0110110101 1111111111010100 01101111010101 11101010010011 11111110110010101110 10010100100001 1111101111111111 0110010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

i, of, and, limitless, on, that, another, for, provided, deaths

Anaphora

i

Epiphora

limitless