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 |
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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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