This is an analysis of I Will Take An Egg Out Of The Robin's Nest by Walt Whitman.

I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard,
I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 101111001010010 10101011000110010 1111001 1111011010100110 1111111011010 111110010011101100 01
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

i, you