Analysis of Mother And Babe
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe--hush'd, I study them long and long.
| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010110011110 010100111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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