Analysis of I Sit And Look Out
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband--I see the treacherous seducer
of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be
hid--I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny--I see martyrs and
prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea--I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these--All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look
out upon,
See, hear, and am silent. 10
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110110101010011 01001 111001011111101 010101011 1101101001101010 010110 1101011010110100010 1110 110111000010101011 11111101 1101011010010011100 100 101010111010101011 11110101101 101010010111001001 1000100110001 11101001000111101 101 110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 705 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 197 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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