Analysis of One's Self I Sing
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ONE'S-SELF I sing--a simple, separate Person;
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.
Of Physiology from top to toe I sing;
Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse--I say
the Form complete is worthier far;
The Female equally with the male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful--for freest action form'd, under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
Scheme | XX AXXA XXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101010 110010100111 10100111111 1101110111010111 010111001 0110010111 11010101010 10110101100101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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