Analysis of A Leaf For Hand In Hand




   A LEAF for hand in hand!
   You natural persons old and young!
   You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the
         Mississippi!
   You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs!
   You twain! And all processions moving along the streets!
   I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to
         walk hand in hand!


Scheme ABCCDDCA
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 110010101 11001001101001010 010 1101001011 1101010100101 111011011111110111 1101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 365
Words 63
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 259
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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