Analysis of A Promise To California
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
A PROMISE to California,
Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,
to teach robust American love;
For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland,
and along the Western Sea;
For These States tend inland, and toward the Western Sea--and I will
also.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010 10101100101100 100101101110011101 110101001 111101110011010111 0010101 111110010101011 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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