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 |
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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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