This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, VII by Walt Whitman.
Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aX Xbb XXc Xabdda bcX
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,3,6,3,
- Metre: 110101010001 110001110001110011110 1110010110011111101011111 101101101101110010 0101010111110 111111111011 110110100101110101100111 11111010111 10011011011111111 111110111110 1101101111010010 11011101111101010010 11111111111 111010100010 101111001111010 1110101101011 1101010010010011001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, it, i, good, earth, for, me, that, mothers
Anaphora
i, for
Epiphora
good
