Analysis of As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields--or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 111011 10101000110100100 1111110110100 11101011010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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