Analysis of To A Certain Civilian
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand--nor
am I now;
(I have been born of the same as the war was born;
The drum-corps' harsh rattle is to me sweet music--I love well the
martial dirge,
With slow wail, and convulsive throb, leading the officer's funeral:)
--What to such as you, anyhow, such a poet as I?--therefore leave my
works,
And go lull yourself with what you can understand--and with piano-
tunes;
For I lull nobody--and you will never understand me. 10
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKCLA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 111011001001 111111111110 1111101111101011 111 111110110111 0111101111101110 101 11100101100100100 1111110101011111 1 0110111110101010 1 111101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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