Analysis of Long, Too Long America
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
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| Metre | 1110100 100111001011110010010 111111110110010101101011 0110101101111011101 110111101111011101 |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 59 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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