Analysis of Cavalry Crossing A Ford
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;
They take a serpentine course--their arms flash in the sun--Hark to
the musical clank;
Behold the silvery river--in it the splashing horses, loitering, stop
to drink;
Behold the brown-faced men--each group, each person, a picture--the
negligent rest on the saddles;
Some emerge on the opposite bank--others are just entering the ford--
while,
Scarlet, and blue, and snowy white,
The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111101110 11010111100111 01001 0101001001010101001 11 010111111100100 10011010 101101001101110001 1 10010101 0111010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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