This is an analysis of Look Down, Fair Moon by Walt Whitman.

LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 11111101 110111011101010 10 10111101111 11110010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

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