This is an analysis of Quicksand Years by Walt Whitman.

QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
Your schemes, politics, fail--lines give way--substances mock and…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabbcXac
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11011111110 11101111110011 011 100111011101101 1 1111011100101011 0101 1010110101111100 01 1111111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10