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.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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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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