Analysis of Patroling Barnegat
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,
Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,
On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,
Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,
(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)
Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending, 10
Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
That savage trinity warily watching.
Scheme | AAAAAAAAAAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
Metre | 1101001110 1001101101010100 111101001001 1111110010 10011111010 110101111110 110101001110 1101011001010 1001011011011010 1011011001110 10010111101 0101111111010 01111110001010 11010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 843 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 647 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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