Analysis of To A Historian
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
YOU who celebrate bygones!
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races--the life
that has exhibited itself;
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,
rulers and priests;
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself,
in his own rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the
great pride of man in himself;)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,
I project the history of the future.
| Scheme | ABCDECFGCHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11010100100101001 11010001 1110111010110100 1001 111011011111001 0111 100110111100100010 1111001 1101001011111 11001001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 539 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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