This is an analysis of When I Read The Book by Walt Whitman.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this, then, (said I) what the author calls a man's life?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXaXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 111010010010 10011110101011 11011111111111 101011011011 1101111101110110011 1 1001101011111000 1111110111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
life, and, i
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
life
