Analysis of Bathed In War's Perfume
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
BATHED in war's perfume--delicate flag!
(Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,)
O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a
beautiful woman!
O to hear the tramp, tramp, of a million answering men! O the ships
they arm with joy!
O to see you leap and beckon from the tall masts of ships!
O to see you peering down on the sailors on the decks!
Flag like the eyes of women.
Scheme | ABCDEFEGD |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
Metre | 101011001 1011010101101 111110100010110 10010 11101110101001101 1111 11111010101111 11111011010101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 314 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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