Analysis of To The East And To The West
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
TO the East and to the West;
To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
To the Kanadian of the North--to the Southerner I love;
These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself--the germs are in
all men;
I believe the main purport of These States is to found a superb
friendship, exalté, previously unknown,
Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in
all men.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 101101101010 1011011010011 110111011110110 11 101011111111001 1001100001 0110111011110100 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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