This is an analysis of What Best I See In Thee by Walt Whitman.
WHAT best I see in thee,
Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXcbaXXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 111101 0111111100111 101001111110010 111111001100101 110111010101000101 01 11010101011101 110101011101 1101000110010101 010101010111010100 1 1000011001010101 11011 111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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