Analysis of A Paumanok Picture
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting--they discover a thick school of mossbonkers--
they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the
beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep
in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water,
the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101111 110010101001111 11011010010 011001111110110 101001 011101010111101 1101001011101101 00101111 01101101010011 11010101111010 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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