Analysis of A Sight In Camp
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
A SIGHT in camp in the day-break grey and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,
As slow I walk in the cool fresh air, the path near by the hospital
tent,
Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there, untended
lying,
Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woollen blanket,
Grey and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
Curious, I halt, and silent stand;
Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest, the first,
just lift the blanket:
Who are you, elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-grey'd hair,
and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
Who are you, my dear comrade? 10
Then to the second I step--And who are you, my child and darling?
Who are you, sweet boy, with cheeks yet blooming?
Then to the third--a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of
beautiful yellow-white ivory;
Young man, I think I know you--I think this face of yours is the face
of the Christ himself;
Dead and divine, and brother of all, and here again he lies.
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Metre | 01010011101 111110111010 1111001110111010 1 1111110101111 10 101010110101010 101010101001 100110101 111101101101001 11010 111100111011111 011100101 111111 1101011011111010 1111111110 110101111110111 100101100 1111111111111101 10101 100101011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,098 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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