Analysis of In Midnight Sleep
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded--of that indescribable
look;
Of the dead on their backs, with arms extended wide,
I dream, I dream, I dream.
Of scenes of nature, fields and mountains;
Of skies, so beauteous after a storm--and at night the moon so
unearthly bright,
Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather
the heaps,
I dream, I dream, I dream.
Long, long have they pass'd--faces and trenches and fields;
Where through the carnage I moved with a callous composure--or away
from the fallen,
Onward I sped at the time--But now of their forms at night,
I dream, I dream, I dream. 10
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111001110 101111010010110100 1 101111110101 111111 111101010 11111001011011 0101 1010101111010010 01 111111 111111001001 11010111010010101 1010 10111011111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 777 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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