Analysis of O Tan-faced Prairie Boy
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food--till at last, among
the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but look'd on each
other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world, you gave me.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 0111111100101 1001010100111101 001 11101101111111 10 1111101101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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