Whitman’s Poetic Techniques
	• Free verse: lack of metrical regularity and conventional rhyme • Use of repeated images, symbols, phrases, and grammatical units • Use of enumerations and catalogs • Use of anaphora (initial repetition) in lines and “Epanaphora” (each line hangs by a loop from the line before it) • The Whitman “envelope” • Contrast and parallelism in paired lines