This is an analysis of Out From Behind His Mask by Walt Whitman.

OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask,
(All straighter, liker Masks rejected--this preferr'd)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdbefgeXgXgXXXfa cXXbgXXfdd
  • Stanza lengths: 19,10,
  • Metre: 1001010111 110101010001 01010001010111011 10111 10010101110 01001010101 0101100101 01010101 011001010011000 101 1001000001 0100100011111110010 11 010100010111010101 1001010010111 110011001010101 011111010100010 101 01101101 010001100111 01111101010 10110001011101100 10 110101010001 10001011101110011 11011111011111010 101001011110011 011111110100001 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

this, for, in, to, and, of

Anaphora

this