This is an analysis of Kosmos by Walt Whitman.

WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXaXcXbddXXdXXca
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 10101001010 10010100110100110100 00110110000110 1010010 111110010011101 1111000100110 101010110001001010 10 11100101010010010000 100010110100 11001001011010110 1100100011001010 101110010011010 0100010010100110101 1 1011100110011110 10101111 10100100110111011 11111010110101 010101011101000 010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, earth, who, or

Anaphora

who