This is an analysis of Portals by Walt Whitman.

WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life, but for Death?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 1110011001110001 111101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2