Analysis of Recorders Ages Hence
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
RECORDERS ages hence!
Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior--I will
tell you what to say of me;
Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest
lover,
The friend, the lover's portrait, of whom his friend, his lover, was
fondest,
Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love
within him--and freely pour'd it forth,
Who often walk'd lonesome walks, thinking of his dear friends, his
lovers,
Who pensive, away from one he lov'd, often lay sleepless and
dissatisfied at night,
Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might
secretly be indifferent to him,
Whose happiest days were far away, through fields, in woods, on
hills, he and another, wandering hand in hand, they twain,
apart from other men,
Who oft as he saunter'd the streets, curv'd with his arm the shoulder
of his friend--while the arm of his friend rested upon him
also. 10
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 111111011010010011 1111111 101101111011101 10 010101011111101 10 111111111011011 011010111 11011011011111 10 110011111101100 01011 11110111101111 100101011 11001010111011 11001010010111 011101 11111011111010 11110111110011 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 713 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 219 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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