This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XL by Walt Whitman.
Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX ab bba Xc adefd gd Xeh ae fXh XXg XeaXbdcd
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,2,5,2,3,2,3,3,8,
- Metre: 1001111111110 1110010111001110 11101110111 11111111 11101111111110 11110001110001110 111110111101111 011111101010100 1111111 111001001 1011011111011 11111010110 111000110111110101 110111101 111111110101001 1111010101110101 0101111001011 10111101001 1011111100011 1101101011101101 01111001011100010 01011010111101001 10110101001 1001010111 110010111101000 11001011 11111111111011 10110010111011 10010011110111 10011001 11111111 11101110110011 11011111011011 11110010101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
you, and, i, might, tell, your, not, to, of
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
cannot
