Analysis of As Toilsome I Wander'd
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
AS TOILSOME I wander'd Virginia's woods,
To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas
autumn,)
I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier,
Mortally wounded he, and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I
understand;)
The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose--yet this sign
left,
On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering;
Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life;
Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in
the crowded street, 10
Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave--comes the inscription
rude in Virginia's woods,
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Scheme | axxxxxxxxB xxxxxaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 10101101111111 10 11101101011010 1001010101001100111 01 01101110111111111 1 1010101101101 110101101 111111111100 1001101100100111 111111001010110 0101 101100110110010 100101 110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 879 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 7 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 291 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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