This is an analysis of These, I, Singing In Spring by Walt Whitman.

THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers,
(For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcadefgbbeXdeXghijickkkXXkceXhfXeicXXjX
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 111000101110 1111110110111101 1 111110010011 0101100100111110 1 101011110001010101 11011110101111 1001101010 1101111111011 1010001111 1100100111111 10101001011011100 10 011111101100111 1111111011101111 1 101001111011011 011110010 01001010001111000 10101101001010011 11100101 1101101111110110 100101101 1111101101101 1111110010100010 11111111001110101 10010101 101011100100110 100111 101010110111001 110101010110111 1101011110101010 11100011011010 1001011111110100 1 10100111111101001 1111001010111101 10100110001111111100 010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, now, some, here, of, this, to

Anaphora

now, here, and