Analysis of Vicouac On A Mountain Side
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting;
Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of
summer;
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising
high;
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes, dingily
seen;
The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the
mountain;
The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized flickering;
And over all, the sky--the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,
breaking out, the eternal stars.
Scheme | ABCADEFGHAIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101001010 010101011100101 10 01010110100101010 1 1011110101111 1 010011010101101110 10 01001110101011100 010101011111110 10100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 395 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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