Analysis of To Foreign Lands
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle, the New
World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy;
Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you
wanted.
| Scheme | ABCAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Lanturne (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111111101111001 1 0101010000100100 111111011010111 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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