This is an analysis of Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman.

ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these;
Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXabXcadXXadcaX
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 111010111 11011100011100 11 110110110110110 11 1000101100100110 1010 1001111010101101 1010101110 11010111110101 101001001101011 111011101101011 1000101011 0110100100101011 1100101 01010100101100110 1110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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