Analysis of The Dalliance Of The Eagles
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse
flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing. 10
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111111 100101010101001010 0101001101010 01010010101101 1101110101110 010010100111010 110010101110101 01001100011101010 100111111011001 1 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 682 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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