This is an analysis of Thoughts by Walt Whitman.

OF ownership--As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter
upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXXXaXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,10,
  • Metre: 010110110111111010 0111010100001101 010101 00111100110001 01001110101010010 0100110110110 10 11101010101010010 011110111011101 0110101001 01111111010101010 1001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, i, what

Anaphora

of