Analysis of The Sobbing Of The Bells
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,
The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People,
(Full well they know that message in the darkness,
Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad
reverberations,)
The passionate toll and clang--city to city, joining, sounding,
passing,
Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.
| Scheme | ABCDEFFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010101110 0110011010 11111100010 11010101111101 0010 0100101101101010 10 1111010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 288 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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