Analysis of With All Thy Gifts
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WITH all thy gifts, America,
(Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,)
Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee--With these, and like of
these, vouchsafed to thee,
What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never
solving;)
The gift of Perfect Women fit for thee--What of that gift of gifts
thou lackest?
The towering Feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit
for thee?
The Mothers fit for thee?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGBHDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110100 10011001010001 1010111111011 1111 1111110100101010 10 0110110111111111 11 01001001101010101 11 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 492 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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