Analysis of Mediums
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THEY shall arise in the States,
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness;
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;
They shall be complete women and men--their pose brawny and supple,
their drink water, their blood clean and clear;
They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products--they shall
enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago,
the great city;
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and
oratresses;
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be--poems and materials of poems
shall come from their lives--they shall be makers and finders;
Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey
gospels;
Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels
--Trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd, 10
Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIAJKLMMNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001 110110101000100 11100100001 11111010 1110110011110010 111011101 11010100000111011 01011011011101 0110 11101110101011000 1 10111111000100110 1111111110010 110111101011101 10 1000111101010 1100101101 101000100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,016 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 725 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 163 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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