Analysis of Debris
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
HE is wisest who has the most caution,
He only wins who goes far enough.
Any thing is as good as established, when that is established that
will produce it and continue it.
| Scheme | XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1110110110 110111101 10111110101110101 101100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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