This is an analysis of What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand? by Walt Whitman.

WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbccXadbXd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 111111101001 0101011001011110 10011011 010001110100011 1011 10101011001101011 1 110101101110110100 100110010011 01001110101110001 1 10100110101001001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

one, to

Epiphora

me