Analysis of Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining!
Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle
pressing!
How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled!
Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson!
Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
My sacred one, my mother.
| Scheme | ABCBDDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001011101 100111111110 1111111101110 10 111110101010 11101101111 111001011101010 111011111010 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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