Analysis of Kosmos

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




   WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,
   Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality
         of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the
         equilibrium also,
   Who has not look'd forth from the windows, the eyes, for nothing, or
         whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing;
   Who contains believers and disbelievers--Who is the most majestic
         lover;
   Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism,
         and of the aesthetic, or intellectual,
   Who, having consider'd the Body, finds all its organs and parts good;
   Who, out of the theory of the earth, and of his or her body,
         understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
   The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of These
         States;
   Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and moon, but in
         other globes, with their suns and moons;
   Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day, but
         for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,          10
   The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable
         together.


Scheme ABCDEFGAHIJBKKLMNOPIA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101000110 1101010100100100 10100110010100 010010 111111010011101 1111001100110 101010011101010 10 11101101010110010000 01001010100 11001001011110011 1110101010111010 01110010011010 010101001001011011 1 10111001011110110 10111101 10100110110111011 111110101010 010101011101000 010
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,168
Words 183
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 822
Words per stanza (avg) 190
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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