This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XII by Walt Whitman.
The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX XX aXXa
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,4,
- Metre: 0101110101110011010010 11001001011010111 100101101100010 110111111100110010 00101011110110 01101111001101 10001011001110011 11110111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, overhand, their
