This is an analysis of Long I Thought That Knowledge by Walt Whitman.

LONG I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me--O if I could
but obtain knowledge!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaXcdXbeXXaXXXccfXdfXfXe
  • Stanza lengths: 26,
  • Metre: 1111100110111011 10110 1110111001001010 100100111011111 01100 1110010011110110100 101110101010111 11001001101101101 11001101010110100 1111101111010 10 11110100101001 0100101 1101101111111110 11010101101010 11101010111111110 10011001 11101100111011110 100110110111 0011011100111101 110110011011001 11101001001100100 10111 11010001111010111 00000111111010110101 01
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

i, me, would, and, be, to, of, you