Analysis of Lessons
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THERE are who teach only the sweet lessons of peace and safety;
But I teach lessons of war and death to those I love,
That they readily meet invasions, when they come.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 111110011011010 1111011011111 111001010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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