Analysis of Beginners
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals;)
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth;
How they inure to themselves as much as to any--What a paradox
appears their age;
How people respond to them, yet know them not;
How there is something relentless in their fate, all times;
How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same
great purchase.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010101010101100 1101011101 11011011111101010 0111 11001111111 1111001001111 111101011010001 0101100011111101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 489 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 357 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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