This is an analysis of Who Is Now Reading This? by Walt Whitman.

May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my past
life,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXc bbXXabXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,8,
  • Metre: 10101100111110011 1 11001001001110011 11011111101011000 010 1101101011 1010110111 1101100111110111 010 1101111001101100011 110010 11010111001010001101 0110 110011010001010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

may, who, be

Anaphora

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