This is an analysis of A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman.

THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 001101111100010 0101010101010101 11010101010100011 101 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5