This is an analysis of I Sit And Look Out by Walt Whitman.

I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXaXXXXXbaccaX
  • Stanza lengths: 19,
  • Metre: 111110110100011011 01011 111001010111100 010101011 1101101001101010 0101100 1101011010110100010 0110 11010010011010101000 11111101 1101001010010011101 100 101010111010101011 10100101001 1010111010111001001 1000110110101 11101011000111101 101 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, see, observe