This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XI by Walt Whitman.
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXb XX Xc Xb cb dae ee XbdXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,2,2,2,2,3,2,5,
- Metre: 101111101 1011111110 10100100111110 11011101001 111011011010010 1001111101 1010000010000 11110101111 11001011111011 1011001011010110 0101101110110 010011100101011 1 101110110 101110110110 0010100011011 011111111101001 1111110100 1111111010010110 1 111111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
twenty, eight, of, their
Anaphora
twenty, she, the, they
Epiphora
bodies
Anadiplosis
you
