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Professor Mills
English 2010
7 July 2004
By e Song of
Myself, we can show that 1891 revisions underscore the function
of
each section as a unit of meaning governed by its own rhythm
Whitman is doing more than simply distributing a pattern of
groups in some sensible fashion over the lines of a poem,
creating what some critics are calling a group/line pattern.
Whitman is also conscious of the size of his groups and of
their progression in terms of size pattern. (16)
Such an analysis demonstrates the method governing
formation of stanzas and the meter governing the lines and
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