Analysis of To The East And To The West

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




   TO the East and to the West;
   To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
   To the Kanadian of the North--to the Southerner I love;
   These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself--the germs are in
         all men;
   I believe the main purport of These States is to found a superb
         friendship, exalté, previously unknown,
   Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in
         all men.


Scheme abcdEfgdE
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 101101101010 1011011010011 110111011110110 11 101011111111001 1001100001 0110111011110100 11
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 443
Words 74
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 308
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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