Analysis of Lo! Victress On The Peaks
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
LO! Victress on the peaks!
Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,
(The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee;)
Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all;
Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
Flauntest now unharm'd, in immortal soundness and bloom--lo! in these
hours supreme,
No poem proud, I, chanting, bring to thee--nor mastery's rapturous
verse;
But a book, containing night's darkness, and blood-dripping wounds,
And psalms of the dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 11110101001 0111110010011 1111001001101011 100101001011 110100101001101 1001 110111011111100 1 10101011001101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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