Analysis of This Day, O Soul
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THIS day, O Soul, I give you a wondrous mirror;
Long in the dark, in tarnish and cloud it lay--But the cloud has
pass'd, and the tarnish gone;
... Behold, O Soul! it is now a clean and bright mirror,
Faithfully showing you all the things of the world.
| Scheme | ABCAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111111101010 100101001111011 100101 0111111010110 100101101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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