Analysis of Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
Joy! shipmate--joy!
(Pleas'd to my Soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closed--our life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last--she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore;
Joy! shipmate--joy!
| Scheme | AbcdefA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11111111 1011110101 01110011 01111111 11010101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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