Analysis of Two Rivulets
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
TWO Rivulets side by side,
Two blended, parallel, strolling tides,
Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey.
For the Eternal Ocean bound,
These ripples, passing surges, streams of Death and Life,
Object and Subject hurrying, whirling by,
The Real and Ideal,
Alternate ebb and flow the Days and Nights,
(Strands of a Trio twining, Present, Future, Past.)
In You, whoe'er you are, my book perusing, 10
In I myself--in all the World--these ripples flow,
All, all, toward the mystic Ocean tending.
(O yearnful waves! the kisses of your lips!
Your breast so broad, with open arms, O firm, expanded shore!)
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Metre | 11111 11010101 0101001001110 10010101 110101011101 10001100101 01001 1001010101 11011010101 0111111010 01101011101 11010101010 111010111 11111101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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