Analysis of Year That Trembled
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough--yet the air I breathed froze me;
A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me;
Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself;
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?
| Scheme | AAABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001011 110111011011111 01111010101 111101011111 11011110111010 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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