Analysis of O Living Always--Always Dying
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O LIVING always--always dying!
O the burials of me, past and present!
O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not--I am content;)
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look
at, where I cast them!
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind!
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 10100111010 111110101001000100110 11111111110111110 11001111101111101 11111 1111101100101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 394 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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