Analysis of Of The Visage Of Things
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
OF the visages of things--And of piercing through to the accepted
hells beneath;
Of ugliness--To me there is just as much in it as there is in
beauty--And now the ugliness of human beings is acceptable to
me;
Of detected persons--To me, detected persons are not, in any respect,
worse than undetected persons--and are not in any respect worse
than I am myself;
Of criminals--To me, any judge, or any juror, is equally criminal--
and any reputable person is also--and the President is also.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101110110110010 101 11001111111011110 1001010011010101001 1 10101011010101101001 1101010011010011 1111 110011101110101100100 0101000101100010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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