Analysis of Come, Said My Soul
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One),
That should I after death invisibly return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultous waves,)
Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on
Ever and ever to the verses owning - as, first, I here and now,
Signing for soul and body, set them to my name,
Walt Whitman.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 1111 11011101111111 111101101 11110101 11111101010 100111111 101111111 10010101010111101 101101011111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 323 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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