This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XLVII by Walt Whitman.
I am the teacher of athletes,
He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc deXaXXb fcg dXX ae efX ff XfagXbgfdbfeg
- Stanza lengths: 3,7,3,3,2,3,2,13,
- Metre: 11010011 111110101111101011 11101111100001010 011101010111011010011 1010110010010011 10011100101 1010110110111111 1101010101101010101111011 010110111010011101100 111101111001 111001111101 110101011000110 111111111010 1111111010101101111101 001101111111110101 1011010010010 11101001101110101 1111010011111100110110010100101 011101110011101 01010110101011100101 01010111011 11011111001 11110101011 01010010011111 010110111011110111 0111000110101011 01011111110100110110 01011010101 1011010101011111110 1110101011111111 111001011111010010 0101001111010010 011011101011 011011010010101111 111110111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
own, my, to, or, and, from, i, you, as, me, with
Anaphora
he, i, the, on
