Analysis of Portals
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life, but for Death?
Scheme | AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101010001 011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 118 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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