Analysis of What Place Is Besieged?
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal;
And with him horse and foot--and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101011101 111111001011010 0111010110100 0010010100110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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