This is an analysis of Germs by Walt Whitman.

FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknown--the ones on the stars,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbabbbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 110010100101 0111010101101 01011110100 1010110011100100 110110 101011101010101 01 11110111100111011 01010011011101111 101011 101010111010010 1
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

ones, and, of

Anaphora

the