This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, III by Walt Whitman.
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the
beginning and the end…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcccc dbbeXfgc hghb ih jj dkf ljki Xabelkgbigb
- Stanza lengths: 7,8,4,2,2,3,4,11,
- Metre: 11110100100100 010101 1111100010101 11101010101101 11011111101 101001010101101 110110111101 11111 110101001 10010100100111101 01111 1101001001101011010 1 001010101111001100 1 1101101100111 1001001 11010100100100 110100111 111011111101101 11 1111100101101 1101011011001 1001101000011101 10001101101000111 01111011110111 100100101101011010110 11 11110100011011110 1010101 1110111111 1010110110111110 11011010010101 101101001101001 0110 110111000110101111 1 111010101101 11110111001 01001001101001001110 01
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
urge, there, and, any, now, than, more, always, of, with
Epiphora
end, now
