Analysis of Offerings
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and
youths, with offerings.
Scheme | ABC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 01001101001 011100101101100 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 148 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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