Analysis of To A President
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
You have not learn'd of Nature--of the politics of Nature, you have
not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality;
You have not seen that only such as they are for These States,
And that what is less than they, must sooner or later lift off from
These States.
| Scheme | ABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001011010010010 1111110101011011 1101101000100 11111101111111 0111111110110111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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