Analysis of Thou Reader

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



THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
   Therefore for thee the following chants.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101010111 11101001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 111
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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