Analysis of I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




   I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I
         pass'd the church;
   Winds of autumn!--as I walk'd the woods at dusk, I heard your long-
         stretch'd sighs, up above, so mournful;
   I heard the perfect Italian tenor, singing at the opera--I heard the
         soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
   ... Heart of my love!--you too I heard, murmuring low, through one of
         the wrists around my head;
   Heard the pulse of you, when all was still, ringing little bells last
         night under my ear.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111011101011111 101 111011101111111 11101110 1100101010101010110 010001100110 111111111001111 010111 101111111101011 11011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 554
Words 93
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 375
Words per stanza (avg) 90
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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