This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XIII by Walt Whitman.
The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabbc XX Xdd cX eb cfeaff
- Stanza lengths: 5,2,3,2,2,6,
- Metre: 0101100100110011101101101 01011011001110111111111011 01101001011111010011 0101101011001001010010 01110101111110100101011 101010010111111111 1100110 010100010101010111101 0100111010101011010 01010111101 1011001111100101101101011 010111101111011 111011111111011110 110101101001 101011100 1010110110011 101011100101010100 111101001001101101 10100110100101110101 10100111100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, on, of, i, to, in
Anaphora
the, his, i, and
Epiphora
me
