Analysis of Offerings
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and
youths, with offerings.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 01001101001 011100101101100 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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