This is an analysis of One's Self I Sing by Walt Whitman.

ONE'S-SELF I sing--a simple, separate Person;
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX bXXb Xab
  • Stanza lengths: 2,4,3,
  • Metre: 111101010110 1100110100111 010100010111 1100001110101010111 010101001 01110000111 01010101110 10110101100101 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

the