This is an analysis of This Day, O Soul by Walt Whitman.
THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror;
Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay--But the cloud has…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 011111101010 100101011011011 110101 0111001011110 100101101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
Repeated words/phrases
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