This is an analysis of With Antecedents by Walt Whitman.
WITH antecedents;
With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccdebfghiXaibbbjc kaXjeeXaabfki id XeiXdXbj iic ichXgXbc
- Stanza lengths: 19,13,2,8,3,8,
- Metre: 01100 011011010010100110 0111010111101111 010100100111 001010100011010 0011011001100011 10 0010010100110100 0010100101001010 010101 0111001111001100 001010111011 001001011 001111100111101 1 010010011010111 0 1110101000111001 0110010110001 1100100001001 111111011100 11010100011011100 01011 1101110001101101101 0 11011101110111 01011011010010011 01100111011 11111010110110101 1100100111110101 10101001001110000011011 1 11010101 101010111011111010 1010100101001010 101110111101 11101011010001101 0101 1011111011110 1111111010110 1101010101101000 110110100111010111 00101110111101 1001011101111001 1 11101111010001 1111110001000011 101011101101010011 110111 111111110011100 100111101 110010010111101010 1111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
with, and, it, we, i, all, that, they, in, name, sake
Anaphora
with, we, i, and
Epiphora
us, part
