This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, I by Walt Whitman.

I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaX bc bXdaeX cXedX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,2,6,5,
  • Metre: 1101111111 111011101 11001001001100101 1110111 1111111010010101 11100100111001 01 1101011010011 11001 11101001001101 1001111 1110010 010101011111110 010 110101110101110010 1001100100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, of, my

Anaphora

i