This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXIX that begins with:
Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001110111 001111101 1011010010010001001 11001110110100 11101011101010110 1101010011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Walt Whitman
- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXI
- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXII
- Analysis of Song Of Myself, XXXIII