This is an analysis of Pensive And Faltering by Walt Whitman.
PENSIVE and faltering,
The words, the dead, I write;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 101100 010111 110101 1001010101 11010101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
