Analysis of Unfolded Out Of The Folds
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is
always to come unfolded;
Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth, is to come the
superbest man of the earth;
Unfolded out of the friendliest woman, is to come the friendliest
man;
Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman, can a man be form'd
of perfect body;
Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the
poems of man--(only thence have my poems come;)
Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can
appear the strong and arrogant man I love;
Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only
thence come the brawny embraces of the man;
Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain, come all the folds of
the man's brain, duly obedient;
Unfolded out of the justice of the woman, all justice is unfolded;
Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy: 10
A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity--but
every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman,
First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in
himself.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHCIFJHFJKBHLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110110101101001 111010 010101101101011110 11101 010110100101110100 1 010101100110101010111 10110 0101011001000101010110 101110111101 0101101010010111011 01010100111 01011001010110101110 11010010101 01011011010111011 011100100 0101101010101101010 010110100101011100 01101101010101001 100110101110101110 101110010111110 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,238 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 874 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 217 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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