Analysis of Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these;
Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the
pond-side,
Breast-sorrel and pinks of love--fingers that wind around tighter
than vines,
Gushes from the throats of birds, hid in the foliage of trees, as the
sun is risen;
Breezes of land and love--breezes set from living shores out to you
on the living sea--to you, O sailors!
Frost-mellow'd berries, and Third-month twigs, offer'd fresh to young
persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are,
Buds to be unfolded on the old terms;
If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring
form, color, perfume, to you;
If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers,
fruits, tall blanches and trees. 10
Scheme | ABCDEBFGHIJKLMGHA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111 11110101011010 11 110011110110110 11 1010111100101110 1110 1011011011101111 1010111110 11010011110111 101001001101011 111011001101011 1110101011 1110110111111001 1100111 110101001110110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 933 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 638 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 172 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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