This is an analysis of Behold This Swarthy Face by Walt Whitman.
BEHOLD this swarthy face--these gray eyes,
This beard--the white wool, unclipt upon my neck,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 9,
- Metre: 010101111 01011100111 11110101001011 1110100011011010110 1010011 1110100011101110 1001 1011010010011111 1111100110110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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