This is an analysis of From My Last Years by Walt Whitman.

FROM my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath,
Scatter'd and dropt, in seeds, and wafted to the West,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 0110111101 101101110001 1100010101010111010 10101 11010110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5