Analysis of This Moment, Yearning And Thoughtful

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




   THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,
   It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and
         thoughtful;
   It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy,
         France, Spain--or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or
         India--talking other dialects;
   And it seems to me if I could know those men, I should become
         attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands;
   O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
   I know I should be happy with them.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 110100101001 1111111010101100 10 11111111000110100100 111110101010101 100101010 011111111111101 0111111110111 11111110010 111111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 528
Words 94
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 363
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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