Analysis of All Is Truth
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O ME, man of slack faith so long!
Standing aloof--denying portions so long;
Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth;
Discovering to-day there is no lie, or form of lie, and can be none,
but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon
itself,
Or as any law of the earth, or any natural production of the earth
does.
(This is curious, and may not be realized immediately--But it must be
realized;
I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
And that the universe does.)
Where has fail'd a perfect return, indifferent of lies or the truth?
Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man?
or in the meat and blood? 10
Meditating among liars, and retreating sternly into myself, I see
that there are really no liars or lies after all,
And that nothing fails its perfect return--And that what are called
lies are perfect returns,
And that each thing exactly represents itself, and what has preceded
it,
And that the truth includes all, and is compact, just as much as
space is compact,
And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth--but
that all is truth without exception;
And henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am,
And sing and laugh, and deny nothing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 10010101011 1001111101011 010011111111110111 111010000101101101 01 11101101110100010101 1 11100011110010001111 10 110111011100101 010101 1110010101011101 11010110101101001011 100101 100011000101001111 1111011011101 011011010101111 110101 01110100101011010 1 010101101101111 1110 01111111000011011 111101010 01111110101111 010100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,402 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 3, 12 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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