This is an analysis of To Old Age by Walt Whitman.

I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as
it pours in the great Sea.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 11010101010101101101 010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2