This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XLII that begins with:
A call in the midst of the crowd,
My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdc d Xcc aebXfgf hXh hh eeX deijj jdgXchieeeigcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,3,7,3,2,3,5,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001 11110010110 1110 11111110111100 10010100111101110101 1001011011101011111 1111111 101110010 1101111111101 1001101 10010110100101101100110101 10111110010101 100110100101011011101011 1001011111101111111 101100101001 1001010011001001 1110110110 0101001001100010 101010101000110110 101010101101110010 01101011010100010 00010111100100 1101000110011011101101 0101101101010011101110001 0101001001001010111 11011111110001111 10100101011010110001001 1111101110 100111001011000 111001111010 11010011111101 1111010111011 110010101 101001001011101 01011110101010101 0110101111111110011 01110100101001010100101101 00100101111001011101011011 01111111110101 0111001001110 101010010100101 1101011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, ever, of, i, but, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, ever, the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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More information about poems by Walt Whitman
- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXVI
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