This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXVI by Walt Whitman.
Now I will do nothing but listen,
To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cdebcfdcfdcXa bcb Xg gX dcXchhce
- Stanza lengths: 2,13,3,2,2,8,
- Metre: 110110110 0011110001011010010 111000110010110011011011 1101110100101 1111100100111100 100101110010100111 10011011100110110111 0101001010011001 0101100101010100110 010000100010011010001001010 0100110101001011 110111001000101101 0110010100100101 0111101000101010111 110111011110110 11010001011101 11010101100111 01111111011 11010000110 1001010011 0101111001011 010100101011011 1101010110000 0100111011001 0101100110111010 01111011111101001 11111011011111 10110010110100101 11110101010010 111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, hear, sounds, it, me
Anaphora
i, the, it
Epiphora
me
