Analysis of Thou Reader
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.
| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101101010111 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 111 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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