Song Of Myself, LII by Walt Whitman: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, LII that begins with:

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xa XbX cb Xb cXa aXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,2,2,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111010110101111100 11110111111000 11101011001001 011011111 0111010011111010101 01010010101 1011111111101011 110110101100101 101110010100111 01110111110111 101011111111 111001011001 11011011 10011111010 101111010 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, of, it, and, you, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Song Of Myself, LII;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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