This is an analysis of Native Moments by Walt Whitman.

NATIVE moments! when you come upon me--Ah you are here now! Give me now
libidinous joys only! Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXbaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 101011101111111111 100011011010110111 11101110101010011 111110101011101110 0111100101100100 1010101011111111011 11111011101110101 0100110101110111101 01110111111101010111 1101111111111101 11001101001011010001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

me, give, i, with, for