This is an analysis of For Him I Sing by Walt Whitman.

FOR him I sing,
I raise the Present on the Past,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 1111 11001101 11010011001001101 011111011100101 010110011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

i

Epiphora

past