Analysis of To Him That Was Crucified
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
MY spirit to yours, dear brother;
Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you;
I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others
also;)
I specify you with joy, O my comrade, to salute you, and to salute
those who are with you, before and since--and those to come
also,
That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and
succession;
We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of times;
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes--allowers of all
theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the
disputers, nor any thing that is asserted;
We hear the bawling and din--we are reach'd at by divisions,
jealousies, recriminations on every side, 10
They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
down, till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the
diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages
to come, may prove brethren and lovers, as we are.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110 1110110101111011 111111110111110 10 11011111110110101 1111101010111 10 111100100100110 010 11100101101011 111110011111 1 110111 11100101001010110 1110111010 11010111111010 100001011001 111011101111 111110111010010 1111101101100 0110 1110101010101011010 111110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,228 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 855 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 206 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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