This is an analysis of Roaming In Thought by Walt Whitman.

ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good
steadily hastening towards immortality,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 100110010111010100 1001000110100 101110110111000101 101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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