Analysis of Reconciliation
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be
utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world:
... For my enemy is dead--a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin--I draw
near;
I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101100101 1001101111101011 1001 1011010101010010 10101001111 111001101011111 111111101001011 1 111011011101100 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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