This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXII by Walt Whitman.
You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdXe bfbcb ab gX X fhha gd fah Xe XX
- Stanza lengths: 6,5,2,2,1,4,2,3,2,2,
- Metre: 1110111011011111 10100111001010 101101011011001 11101010101101101001 10111101001 110100111011 10111 110110101 100101101000111101 10110010101101 111000111101110110 100011110110001101010 100010111101101 111010100 111110100111011010 111010010101110100010010010 110001101011 10011101010011110100 110111011001 1100101111 0111100100010100 0110010111001101101 11110101001001010 110110111010 1110001111101 00111011001100 101101011 1011001101101011010 010011111111001111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
i, you, of, me, and
Anaphora
i, sea, did
