This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXI by Walt Whitman.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXa dXac dXadXXaaXX
- Stanza lengths: 7,4,10,
- Metre: 101010101110101001 101001000110101101001 101100111010 1010110101010010 10100101110110100 1011000110101011 1010100010101000100 1110101111101110101 1110010011110 1110100111010 11101101110100 01010110 0100101111101101 010101010101101 01101111011011 0101010001010110101 010101001001 01011101011 01011001010001 01010111110101 110101010010010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, in, vain
Anaphora
and, in
