This is an analysis of I Was Looking A Long While by Walt Whitman.
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for
myself, and for these chants--and now I have found it;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcadcbXdXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1110011101001000011 111111111110 00101110001100110 01101 001100101011 000001000101 0000100001110101 0001011111001010010 01 0001001010100001 00001101010110100 101110010101010 10 1101001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, for, it, in, of
Anaphora
it
Anadiplosis
it
