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

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abb cbdeXfafdaXaf Xda abXceX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,13,3,6,
  • Metre: 10111100101110001 1101011110110 0101010101110111110 010101001011100101000100 00111010110100 101001101101101110 111100001101 010111 10101101111111 11010110100100110110111111 010111111001111011101001 01001101110010001 01110010100100101 010111101101011 00101100100110101111 0100101110101100111001 11100101011110011 11100110101 11111011010010 10111011110101000110 110100001111110011 111101111011111 10100111101001 11111111011101 11100111100011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

it, and, i, of, my, you, have, to, nor

Anaphora

the, i, have, you

Epiphora

it, poems