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
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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Walt Whitman

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