Analysis of Italian Music In Dakota
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all,
Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,
In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
Electric, pensive, turbulent artificial,
(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera
house,
Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,
And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;) 10
Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,
Music, Italian music in Dakota.
While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,
Acknowledging rapport however far remov'd,
(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
Listens well pleas'd.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 111101010101 010101011 01010100010 11010101100101 100110110011110101 110101011101001010 1 1101001110111 1100111110 01010101 100110101 10010100010 110101111 100100101100 01000110101 111111111111011 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 923 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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