This is an analysis of Had I The Choice by Walt Whitman.

Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbXXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1101010101 0111010100110110 10010111001001011 1111010101010100110 101101110101001101010 11111111010 1101000011010101 1111010111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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