As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing

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




   AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,
   Or the sower sowing in the fields--or the harvester harvesting,
   I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
   (Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme AABA
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 234
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

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