This is an analysis of A Paumanok Picture by Walt Whitman.

TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting--they discover a thick school of mossbonkers--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 110110101111 11001010100110100 11011010010 0110111111010100 10100100 010101010111101 1001001011101101 00101111 01101101010010 1010101110110010 01110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

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