Analysis of A Song
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.
I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of
America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over
the prairies;
I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other's
necks;
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.
For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme! 10
For you! for you, I am trilling these songs,
In the love of comrades,
In the high-towering love of comrades.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001 1110110101101101 111010101 10111 1011111 1110101110110101 01000010110110110 010 111010001011101110 1 10111 1010111 111111010011111 1111111011 00111 001100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 775 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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