Analysis of Walt Whitman's Caution
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Tanka (20%) |
| Metre | 10111011111010101 0110110 10100010011001 1100111011011110 100011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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