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

Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
(I tell not the fall of Alamo,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaaab XXbc dXedX fe XefXcXXXXXdb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,4,5,2,12,
  • Metre: 11111101001101 111010100 110101010100 0101101111100 101001001101101111 010111001010110110 11011000101001111010111001 1101101110101 11011100001010011011111111110001 10010001010 10011011011 110010010110100 1010100101010 101011010001 01011101011011100011001010 010101101111011 10100101 1101110111111 011111001011010111010 01110100101101 01 1110100101 101000101110001010 011101011001011110011 010111100011 101001010100010 10010010001101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

tell, i, alamo, their, of, in, and

Anaphora

they, the

Epiphora

alamo