Analysis of What's the Railroad to Me?
Henry David Thoreau 1817 (Concord) – 1862 (Concord)
What's the railroad to me?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
| Scheme | AABCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 110111 111 110110 0111010 1101010 0010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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