Analysis of To Old Age
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as
it pours in the great Sea.
| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010010100101101 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 114 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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