Analysis of The Unexpressed

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)



How dare one say it?
After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
Vaunted Ionia's, India's -Homer, Shakespeare -the long, long times, thick
dotted roads, areas,
The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars -Nature's pulses reaped,
All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,
All ages' plummets dropped to their utmost depths,
All human lives, throats, wishes, brains -all experiences' utterance;
After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,
Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print -something lacking,
(Who knows? the best yet unexpressed and lacking.)


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1001010101 10110010101111 101100 01010001011110101 1010101011010 1101011111 11011101101000100 10010111111111 110111011111010 110111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 603
Words 95
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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