This is an analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXVII by Walt Whitman.
You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbb Xa XX a Xa XX
- Stanza lengths: 5,2,2,1,2,2,
- Metre: 1101111011 010101111101 0101100111100 111010110101 1101100001 11010010101100111 0011100101111 1010111101111110111101 111010111101010111101 1010010110011111111110 101001011011111011011 110110110101011001 10010010111101000 1101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, my
Anaphora
not
