Analysis of To A Certain Cantatrice
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
HERE, take this gift!
I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or General,
One who should serve the good old cause, the great Idea, the progress
and freedom of the race;
Some brave confronter of despots--some daring rebel;
--But I see that what I was reserving, belongs to you just as much as
to any.
| Scheme | ABCDBEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1101011110101100 111101110101001 010101 1111111010 111111101001111111 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 337 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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