Analysis of One Song, America, Before I Go
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ONE song, America, before I go,
I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound,
For thee--the Future.
I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality;
I'd fashion thy Ensemble, including Body and Soul;
I'd show, away ahead, thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
(The paths to the House I seek to make,
But leave to those to come, the House itself.)
Belief I sing--and Preparation;
As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the Present
only, 10
But greater still from what is yet to come,
Out of that formula for Thee I sing.
Scheme | XXX AXX XX XXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101000111 11101011101 11010 1101111100100 11010100101001 110101111001111010 011011111 1111110101 01110010 1101011111001010 10 1101111111 1111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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