This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XVII by Walt Whitman.
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XX
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,
- Metre: 111001011011011111010001 011111111111011010 0111010101000101110 0111111111101110 00011101001010100 001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 6
Repeated words/phrases
they, not, nothing, as, if
Anaphora
if, this
Epiphora
nothing
