Analysis of To You
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why
should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 10111011001011111 111111 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 150 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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