Analysis of The Untold Want

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)



THE untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
   Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 00111101110 11001111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 107
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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