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

Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbXcaddebd ded aeXXcd
  • Stanza lengths: 15,3,6,
  • Metre: 0010110010010100 11101001111 10010110110010 111110110011010100011 11110010010011 1001001110011 010010011101010 010101111010 1000111011011 010101000100111101 1000100101001 11011011111101001 101010101111011110 100100101001001 110100110101101 0101010010101 111110001010 1110010010101011 11101110 111011111111111101010 1111100101111011 1101111101101001 10111111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

and, to, my, i

Anaphora

they, i

Epiphora

me