This is an analysis of Mother And Babe by Walt Whitman.

I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe- hush'd, I study them long and long.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 11010110010010 010101111100111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2