This is an analysis of Red Jacket (From Aloft) by Walt Whitman.

Upon this scene, this show,
Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 010101 1001110101 1001011101010 10011101011101 111111111001 10010111010100101 01010110010010100 1100101 11010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9