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!…
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