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
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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Walt Whitman

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