Analysis of O Me! O Life!
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities fill'd with the
foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I,
and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light--of the objects mean--of the
struggle ever renew'd;
Of the poor results of all--of the plodding and sordid crowds I see
around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest--with the rest me
intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring--What good amid these, O me, O
life?
That you are here--that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
Scheme | XAXXBAXBCCXXX CB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 1111101011010 10101101110110 10 11010111111011 0111 111101011010110 101001 10101111010010111 011 101001011011011 001 010111101011011111 1 1111110100100 1010011101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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