Analysis of As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all I could understand,)
The halt of a midday hour, when up! no time to lose--yet this sign left,
On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,
Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave, come the inscription rude in Virginia's woods.
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Scheme | axxxxxB xxxaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 1010110111111110 11101101011010 100101010100110011101 01101101111111111 1010101101101 110101101 111111111100 1001101100100111 1111110010101100101 101100110110010100101 110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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