Analysis of Beginning My Studies
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much,
The mere fact, consciousness--these forms--the power of motion,
The least insect or animal--the senses--eyesight--love;
The first step, I say, aw'd me and pleas'd me so much,
I have hardly gone, and hardly wish'd to go, any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time, to sing it in extatic songs.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100111111 01110011010110 011110001011 011111101111 111010101111010 11010101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 373 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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