Analysis of Here, Sailor
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect
pilot needs?
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
Whom, in a little boat, putting off, and rowing, I, hailing you,
offer.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111101100 110010101010010001 101 11011101010110 1001011010101101 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 303 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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