Analysis of This Dust Was Once The Man
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THIS dust was once the Man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute--under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of These States.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 1011010101101 0101101001010111 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 205 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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