Analysis of For Him I Sing
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
FOR him I sing,
I raise the Present on the Past,
(As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on the past:)
With time and space I him dilate--and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself, by them, the law unto himself.
| Scheme | ABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111 11010101 11010011111010101 110111010100101 110111011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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