Analysis of I Am He That Aches With Love
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I AM he that aches with amorous love;
Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all
matter?
So the Body of me, to all I meet, or know.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111001 101101111010011 10 101011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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