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

The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 01100101110110 01100101101110 01111011111000 0101100101 1111111101001 1101111011010 110011110101100 11110111011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

the, i