This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, VI by Walt Whitman.
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab c dXba c Xaef a gcfgg aca aX cg cX XXed aX
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,4,1,4,1,5,3,2,2,2,4,2,
- Metre: 011100110001011 1111001111110010111 110100101101010101110 111000100001 01011100010001 1001011000010111 1101111 11101001010011001010 1110001011010 10110010111101 1001111011 1010100111001101001 110101010011101 1000111101 0101010001011 0100111011110 0101101101011101101101 11110101 0101010000110110 10101001011 101010011101 11011011101001 1101111100101110 11110101010111110 101011111010111011011 1111101001111 111111010010111 11011111 01011101011 1010110110111111010010 11010101 111011010010 101010001101011100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
it, i, of, and, from, old
Anaphora
or, it, and
Epiphora
laps
