This is an analysis of Think Of The Soul by Walt Whitman.
THINK of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabc dXec fcb ghh XXbb eii ggg ei Xdafd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,4,3,3,2,5,
- Metre: 1001 1101110011010011 11010101 11111111001 10101101 110101011111001001 1110101111110001 1 1001 11110010110011101 111 0101010101111001 10010001101010110 10011 0101010100100101 010101010010100001 011100010101001 10100100110110 1001110111 101111010010 1001111100010 10100001 1101110101100100 10100100001 1011110001 1111110101110 1010111000101 00100101 11111101011 11111010111010101 101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
to, i, you, of, manhood, and
Anaphora
recall, think, have
Epiphora
soul, dying
