This is an analysis of Song Of The Universal by Walt Whitman.
COME, said the Muse,
Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc aXde fag Xgg fXh ahga Xb dac ibf cc iXX bdj babg fXk Xjb cbXX deXc jcceg dkfXc llll
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,3,3,3,4,2,3,3,2,3,3,4,3,3,4,4,5,5,4,
- Metre: 1101 11011101110 1101010 001101 010100010101 0111010101 1001010 11001011111 111001011101010 10 111100101 10110101010 0101011100 10110101110 101100101010101 1000101101101 01011101 1011010101 100100010010 100100011 1001010101 101101011111010101 10111101 0011001011111 10011111010 10010101010 10010100010101011 1 01010101100101 100001010 10010101110 11010101001001 100101001 01000101 1111110011 1101010 0101010 001101010010 1011010111 01110101010 10110101 11110101111 01010101 110100 1010101001100100 1111101101 111001 01010010011111111 1 000110 01010101010001 1111110011 10111000010101011 1100001 11110100 1101100101 1001010101 01010101001110 1101010001000100100 11110111 111110110101 0101011010101101 0101010101111 110101010 0001 11010001 1100111101 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, for, thou, all, give, in, it, dream
Anaphora
sing, for, out, to, all, give, and
Epiphora
all, dream
Anadiplosis
all
