This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XX by Walt Whitman.
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab c dX XX ab X ef eg acf Xeb bafX hbb hfbXbdg
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,3,3,4,3,7,
- Metre: 11110011001 100111100111 1001101111111 11111111010011 1001110001 111101100110 1111010111011 100110101011001100100101 11111111111 1111111101101000 101101010100110010110101 111101110111 011011111111101011 10011110111100 11111011 0100101000101010001 111001111110101 111110 110100110011010010 111111101101001111 111110 1111011001000110101 111010101100101 110101110101011111101 1011111001 01100010011110 101110011110 110011110100111011 11011011011011011100 111001011010100111 11101001100010 1111111010 111010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
i, what, and, of, know, aware, or
Anaphora
i
Epiphora
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