Analysis of Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil,
this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and
their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never
forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
Scheme | XXX XX XXXXXX XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 011011101 11001001011110111 1100111 1101111010011101 11100101111111 11 1111011110010 11001 11101011001101 1011111 1010010 010101011111110 010 110111110111110010 1001110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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