Analysis of So Far And So Far, And On Toward The End
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end,
Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible impulses of
me;
But whether I continue beyond this book, to maturity,
Whether I shall dart forth the true rays, the ones that wait unfired,
(Did you think the sun was shining its brightest?
No--it has not yet fully risen;)
Whether I shall complete what is here started,
Whether I shall attain my own height, to justify these, yet
unfinished,
Whether I shall make THE POEM OF THE NEW WORLD, transcending all
others--depends, rich persons, upon you,
Depends, whoever you are now filling the current Presidentiad, upon
you, 10
Upon you, Governor, Mayor, Congressman,
And you, contemporary America.
Whitman, Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass.
Scheme | AXBBAXCXXXXDXDCX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010101 101110111001001001 1 1101010011110100 10111101101111 11101110110 111111010 10110111110 10110111111011 010 1011101010110101 1001110011 0101011110010101 1 01110010100 0101000100 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 286 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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