Analysis of Turn, O Libertad
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over,
(From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute,
sweeping the world,)
Turn from lands retrospective, recording proofs of the past;
From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past;
From the chants of the feudal world--the triumphs of kings, slavery,
caste;
Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come--give up that
backward world;
Leave to the singers of hitherto--give them the trailing past;
But what remains, remains for singers for you--wars to come are for
you;
(Lo! how the wars of the past have duly inured to you--and the wars
of the present also inure:)
--Then turn, and be not alarm'd, O Libertad--turn your undying
face, 10
To where the future, greater than all the past,
Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101110 110111010101110 1001 1110100101101 10101101010101 1011010101011100 1 110101001011111 101 11010111110101 1101011101111111 1 11011011100111001 10101001 11011011111010 1 11010101101 1101001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 933 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 615 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 191 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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