Analysis of Spirit That Form'd Theis Scene

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)



SPIRIT that form'd this scene,
   These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,
   These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,
   These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,
   These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,
   I know thee, savage spirit--we have communed together,
   Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;
   Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
   To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
   The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace--column
         and polish'd arch forgot?                                    10
   But thou that revelest here--spirit that form'd this scene,
   They have remember'd thee.


Scheme ABCDEFEGCHIAJ
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 11011101 110100101 1101001111010 11101110111 1111010111010 111101110111 1110111110101 110101110101 0110101110110 010101 11111101111 110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 704
Words 95
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 503
Words per stanza (avg) 128
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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