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
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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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. more…

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