This is an analysis of No Labor-Saving Machine by Walt Whitman.

NO labor-saving machine,
Nor discovery have I made;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1101001 10100111 10101001011101001010 1101110 11010010101010100 11010011101111011 10011010010111 111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

nor, for

Anaphora

nor