Analysis of What Am I, After All?
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own
name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear--it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in
the sound of your name?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011011101111 1010110010 110111110101 111110 1111110111100100 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 291 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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