Analysis of What Weeping Face
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window?
Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?
Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?
Is it to wet the soil of graves?
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101010 111111001 11111001101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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