This is an analysis of Reconciliation by Walt Whitman.

WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1101100101 1001111010101010 1001 1010010111010010 10111001011 1110001010111101 111111111001011 1 111111001101100 10
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10