This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, VIII by Walt Whitman.
The little one sleeps in its cradle,
I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab aX cX XXddaabdedceX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,13,
- Metre: 010110010 11011101111001011011 0101011110110101 110010001 01011101010011 1100100101111010110 01001100110111001000 01010001000010101010011010101 011101011011 0101100100010011 01001001001101100110 010010001010111 00101001000110100100010001 0010110110111010 1101011111110101 1101001010100110111101 1101101011100111011010 0101001010010101000100111 110101110000111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
the, what
