Analysis of That Shadow, My Likeness
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood,
chattering, chaffering;
How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits;
How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
--But in these, and among my lovers, and caroling my songs,
O I never doubt whether that is really me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101110110010 1001 1101111001011111 110110011011101 1010011100111 111011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 348 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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