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

All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX bX cc abaXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,2,2,6,
  • Metre: 111011 110101101001010 11110010100010 01010001101110 10111101 101101001 010011100011 1011010100111001 1011110101 001101011011 10101011011011 1010010001001110 101011010010111110 111011001011001001100 1011111011110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

they, only, and

Epiphora

so