Analysis of O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O BITTER sprig! Confession sprig!
In the bouquet I give you place also--I bind you in,
Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,
I give fair warning, once for all.
I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevaricator, greedy,
derelict,
And I own that I remain so yet.
What foul thought but I think it--or have in me the stuff out of
which it is thought?
What in darkness in bed at night, alone or with a companion?
| Scheme | XXAX AXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 00011111101110 010110110100 11110111 1111111110110 10 011110111 111111111010111 1111 1010011101110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 462 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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