Analysis of O Sun Of Real Peace
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!
O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!
O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height--
and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend!
O so amazing and broad--up there resplendent, darting and burning!
O vision prophetic, stagger'd with weight of light! with pouring
glories!
O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless!
O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over!
New history! new heroes! I project you!
Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on!
O heights too swift and dizzy yet! 10
O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand!
(I must not venture--the ground under my feet menaces me--it will not
support me:
O future too immense,)--O present, I return, while yet I may, to you.
Scheme | ABACDDEFGHIJKLMH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111001 11011111010101 1011011011000111 011110111001 11010011101010010 110010101111110 10 11111010010100 11001110101110 11001101101 101101011011111 11110101 110100110111111 111100110111001111 011 110101110101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 901 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 617 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 179 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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