Analysis of Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag!--long yet your road, and lined with
bloody death!
For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world!
All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with your threads, greedy
banner!
--Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest born, to flaunt
unrival'd?
O hasten, flag of man! O with sure and steady step, passing highest
flags of kings,
Walk supreme to the heavens, mighty symbol--run up above them all,
Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 11111011111011 101 1011111011101 111011101011110 10 101011110111 010 11011111101011010 111 10110101010110111 11111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 571 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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