Analysis of A Farm-Picture
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;
And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 10101011010101 01110111001010 010100010101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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