This is an analysis of Excelsior by Walt Whitman.
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther?
And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of the…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdaXeafXgdbgeXXghefhdXc
- Stanza lengths: 25,
- Metre: 1111011111110 1110111100111000 1 111101110110 11101001110011111110 10011 11110111101000111 111010111010 11101111110000101 0111101001011110 11101111110010110 1000101 110100111110100110 1 1110101001101011 11101111101111 11011 1110101001111110 0001010010101 110100011100010111101 1010100101110001011 1110101110011 1 111111101111100100 100011011011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
who, for, i, and, has
Anaphora
and
