Analysis of What General Has A Good Army
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT General has a good army in himself, has a good army;
He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy,
But I tell you you cannot be happy by others, any more than you can
beget or conceive a child by others.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001011000110110 1100011110001110 1111110110110101111 0110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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