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

I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abased to the other.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX aaX XXaa XbbcXcXX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,3,4,8,
  • Metre: 10101110101111100101 111101000010 101101101011 11110111111011011001 100111010111 111111100101010 1110110111110110011 1100101101111101111 11111111111111 100111011011101110100001 111101010010011 1111010010010011 111011011101101010110110 110100001001 1100111110001 11100101010 11010011111010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

not, i, you, and, your, my, of, that

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

own