Analysis of My Picture-Callery
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories?
Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001011110010111011 111111001101111010 10111111011011100 101110101011 11111111001 1101111010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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