This is an analysis of In Former Songs by Walt Whitman.

IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful
Life,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXb baXc bcXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,4,5,
  • Metre: 0101111111110010 1 11110101001011 111111001011 011100101 1101110100010101 110101 111101 11111101010101001 01110101101101 1101000101011101 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

and, to, you, for

Anaphora

for

Epiphora

death