Analysis of A Child's Amaze
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his
statements,
As contending against some being or influence.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100011010101 10101101010011101 10 1010011101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 184 |
Words | 30 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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