Analysis of From My Last Years
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
FROM my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath,
Scatter'd and dropt, in seeds, and wafted to the West,
Through moisture of Ohio, prairie soil of Illinois--through Colorado,
California air,
For Time to germinate fully.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Tanka (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 1111111101 100101010101 11010101011011010 0101 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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