Analysis of Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
FAST-ANCHOR'D, eternal, O love! O woman I love!
O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
--Then separate, as disembodied, or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation;
I ascend--I float in the regions of your love, O man,
O sharer of my roving life.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101111011 11111111110111 1101001010101 010001010101010 10111001011111 11011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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