Analysis of In Paths Untrodden
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
IN paths untrodden,
In the growth by margins of pond-waters,
Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,
From all the standards hitherto publish'd--from the pleasures,
profits, eruditions, conformities,
Which too long I was offering to feed my soul;
Clear to me, now, standards not yet publish'd--clear to me that my
Soul,
That the Soul of the man I speak for, feeds, rejoices most in
comrades;
Here, by myself, away from the clank of the world,
Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
No longer abash'd--for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would
not dare elsewhere, 10
Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains
all the rest,
Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
Projecting them along that substantial life,
Bequeathing, hence, types of athletic love,
Afternoon, this delicious Ninth-month, in my forty-first year,
I proceed, for all who are, or have been, young men,
To tell the secret of my nights and days,
To celebrate the need of comrades.
Scheme | ABCBBDEDAFGHIJKLMNOPAQF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 0011101110 01101101001 1101011101010 1011 111111001111 111110111011111 1 1011011111110 1 11101101101 100011111010 1100110101011101111 111 10110111101001101 101 0111111111110010 01010110101 11110101 01101011011011 101111111111 1101011101 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,140 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 793 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 213 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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