Analysis of Sometimes With One I Love
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse
unreturn'd love;
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love--the pay is certain, one
way or another;
(I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd;
Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
| Scheme | ABCDEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111111111111 11 111111111011101 11010 11010101000111101 1111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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