Analysis of The Runner
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner;
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;
He is thinly clothed--he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais'd.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101110 111010011001 111011110111 11011011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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