Analysis of Poets to Come
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than
before known,
Arouse! Arouse--for you must justify me--you must answer.
I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a
casual look upon you, and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111001001011 111111010101111 1101110010010101 011 01011111011110 1111111010011010 1101010101101010010 1101110101101010 1001011010111 10111110011 01001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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