Analysis of That Music Always Round Me
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning--yet long untaught
I did not hear;
But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;
A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health, with glad notes of
day-break I hear,
A soprano, at intervals, sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense
waves,
A transparent bass, shuddering lusciously under and through the
universe,
The triumphant tutti--the funeral wailings, with sweet flutes and
violins--all these I fill myself with;
I hear not the volumes of sound merely--I am moved by the exquisite
meanings,
I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving,
contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
I do not think the performers know themselves--but now I think I
begin to know them.
Scheme | ABACBDEFGAHAIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101111 1111 110101101010 0101010110011111 1111 001011001011001101 1 00101100110010 10 001010010011110 001111111 111010111011110100 10 11010100101000110 01011001001011100010 1111001010111111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 602 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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