This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XLII by Walt Whitman.
A call in the midst of the crowd,
My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cdc d Xcc aebXfgf hXh hh eeX deijj jdgXchieeeigcg
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,1,3,7,3,2,3,5,14,
- Metre: 01001001 11110010110 1110 11111110111100 10010100111101110101 1001011011101011111 1111111 101110010 1101111111101 1001101 10010110100101101100110101 10111110010101 100110100101011011101011 1001011111101111111 101100101001 1001010011001001 1110110110 0101001001100010 101010101000110110 101010101101110010 01101011010100010 00010111100100 1101000110011011101101 0101101101010011101110001 0101001001001010111 11011111110001111 10100101011010110001001 1111101110 100111001011000 111001111010 11010011111101 1111010111011 110010101 101001001011101 01011110101010101 0110101111111110011 01110100101001010100101101 00100101111001011101011011 01111111110101 0111001001110 101010010100101 1101011011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, ever, of, i, but, in
Anaphora
come, ever, the, i
Epiphora
them
