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

There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.
Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bX XX Xa b bX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,1,2,
  • Metre: 1010111111001110001 1110111111001 11111 1111000011000101 001010101010010 100111101111 00001000110101001 01111111111110110 1111110110 001101100110100010100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

it, i, know

Anaphora

i

Epiphora

sisters