This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXI by Walt Whitman.
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXX aaa XXb ba bbbcb dcXXXXdc ee
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,2,5,8,2,
- Metre: 110100010111010001 01001010110101101 0111101011101010100011 11010001001101 11100110001010001 111101010101001 1101001011 11110110100101 11110100100 111001110101 00010101101110011111 1111100101101 110011111101 1111001110101001 1011100111 1101110101 110100111 1001001101 100101110010101 100100100111101 10111100010010 1001010110110111 110111110101 111101 1001110111110111 101001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
i, of, poet, and, night, earth
Anaphora
the, and, i, earth
Epiphora
man, night, love
Anadiplosis
night, earth
