This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XVIII by Walt Whitman.

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aab cdXXdbbac
  • Stanza lengths: 3,9,
  • Metre: 0101110110111 111101010101011101101110 11110100101 11010000110110011001111 1111101 1111100011011010 1001111 10111101001 1010111001 101100110101110110 101000110100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

i, and

Epiphora

sea