Analysis of Hush'd Be the Camps Today
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
Hush'd be the camps today,
And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
Our dear commander's death.
No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
Nor victory, nor defeat--no more time's dark events,
Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.
But sing poet in our name,
Sing of the love we bore him--because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
As they invault the coffin there,
Sing--as they close the doors of earth upon him--one verse,
For the heavy hearts of soldiers.
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Metre | 110101 010111101110 01110101110 1010101 111111001 1100101111101 1011010101 11100101 110111101110011110 1110101 1111011101111 10101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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