This is an analysis of A Child's Amaze by Walt Whitman.

SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 101011010101 101011010100111100 10 1010011101100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4