This is an analysis of Inscription by Walt Whitman.

SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatest--namely,
One's-Self--that wondrous thing a simple, separate person.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXbaXX XaX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,3,
  • Metre: 1001001001101010 11110101010110 1101001111 1101000101011111000 0111010101011101 0101001011100011 1 1110101111010010 0111 11111010100110101 111011110101000111 110010100111101 11011101010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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