Analysis of I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy
institutions;
But really I am neither for nor against institutions;
(What indeed have I in common with them?--Or what with the
destruction of them?)
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These
States, inland and seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every keel, little or large,
that dents the water,
Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any argument,
The institution of the dear love of comrades.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011111101 010 11011101101010 10111010111110 01011 1011010001001001011 1101 00010100110011011 11010 0111111110100 0010101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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