Analysis of Thoughts
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
OF ownership--As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter
upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself.
Of waters, forests, hills;
Of the earth at large, whispering through medium of me;
Of vista--Suppose some sight in arriere, through the formative chaos,
presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the
journey;
(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
--Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become
supplied--And of what will yet be supplied,
Because all I see and know, I believe to have purport in what will
yet be supplied.
Scheme | XX XAXXAXXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111111111010 011001010101101 110101 10111100110011 1100111011010010 010011110110 10 11101010001010010 111110110011101 0101111101 0111101101111011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 10 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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