This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXIV that begins with:
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dXee f Xd ddfagahb diX Xjdfi cXd jkkkkgkXkkkkkkkkk feXa ef Xdjbk da ahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,2,8,3,5,3,17,4,2,5,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010001001 100101001010110 11000011001111010100 11101100 1001001 100101011 01001010011 11100111011101 1101001011011011110 11011010110100100 1110011011101110101011 11101110 1000010001010010011 100001101010111 10010010101010 100110101101100101 1001000101101 000110011001 10011010101 1110010 1001011101110101 100101110111000 11111100111 111100010101010111 1000011101110 10100110101 1010101100111110100100 0111011111110110111110 0101110101011 011110101101 011011110100100101110110100 0101010101 1010110101 1100100101 1101001010101 11111101110011 1110011010101 110101011000 1011110011101010010101 110101110101 1010101001010101 111000101 1010110110101 1101110101 1111010010110101 11001100111010011010101 11110111110111010101 1111110110111110 1101110101101 110111101110101101 101001010110100101101 11111111001000100 0101011101011110101001 001011 010110011010011 01100110 1001011100101001010010 10010111 10110111010001 10110110 011011001010110 01100011101011 0101111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, through, me, i, of, and, voices, it, than, you, be, have, cause, nor, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, unscrew, voices, and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word through at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, you are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases voices, you connect the lines.
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