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

Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX aX Xa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,
  • Metre: 1101001110111 001111101 1011010010010001001 11001110110100 11101011101010110 1101010011110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 6