Analysis of Pensive And Faltering
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
PENSIVE and faltering,
The words, the dead, I write;
For living are the Dead;
(Haply the only living, only real,
And I the apparition--I the spectre.)
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (60%) Cinquain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 100100 010111 110101 101010101 0100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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