Analysis of Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for
future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and
traditions;
Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met
there, who detain'd me for love of me;
Day by day and night by night we were together,--All else has long
been forgotten by me;
I remember, I say, only that woman who passionately clung to me;
Again we wander--we love--we separate again;
Again she holds me by the hand--I must not go!
I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.
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Metre | 1111010010010111 101111100100 010 1111110101010010110001 110111111 1110111100101111 101011 1010111011011000111 011101111001 011111011111 1101011110110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 416 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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