Analysis of The Torch
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ON my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group
stands watching;
Out on the lake, that expands before them, others are spearing
salmon;
The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
Bearing a Torch a-blaze at the prow.
Scheme | ABBCDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001101011 110 110110101110110 10 0010110011010110 100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 288 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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