This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XLVIII by Walt Whitman.
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabcaXda bbc XX XXdXXX
- Stanza lengths: 9,3,2,6,
- Metre: 1111010111010 11111010011101 11011010011110 101010110110010011001001 111110000111001001 101011110100101010011 11011101010111000101010 1101101110101101101 111010111011111101010101010 11101101100011 111110001111100011 10101111111110111011 111011010010110111001 11110111101100111 111101110101 1110011100010111101 00100111011110111001 11100110011100101111 11101111111100011 1001001110110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
than, not, and, or, of, about, i, curious, say, god, in
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
god
