Analysis of Hast Never Come To Thee An Hour
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
HAST never come to thee an hour,
A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles,
fashions, wealth?
These eager business aims--books, politics, art, amours,
To utter nothingness?
Scheme | ABCBD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 110111110 0101010100101110 101 11010111011 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 30 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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