This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXIII by Walt Whitman.
Endless unfolding of words of ages!
And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab bX cc XX dXXad aeeadXX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,5,7,
- Metre: 1001001010 110100100111 010011101 1110000010101101110100 001001100111011 1101001001011 1010100111100 01001011110 0111001011011010 11001010110011 00010100001001010001100 11001011100011 0000100010010100010010 10001011011 1111011111110 111010011000110 100100100111 11001010101101011010 1110101011011011101010 110100111010010111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, word, and, it, alone, this
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
all, dwelling
