This is an analysis of God by Walt Whitman.

THOUGHT of the Infinite--the All!
Be thou my God.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aB bcB cdeB XcB XaB dfagX ggXef
  • Stanza lengths: 2,3,4,3,3,5,5,
  • Metre: 10010001 0111 100110111 101001001110 0111 110011 11010010110 01010101010 0111 111111011 1001100010010 0111 1101001110111 010101110111 0111 111110010 110100101010 1101010111 1101010101 01111 1111 110101110 110111111111010 1101011111 0111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

thou, all

Anaphora

all, or