Analysis of Roaming In Thought
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good
steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself
and become lost and dead.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011001011010111 100100010100 001111110111001101 001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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