Analysis of To A Pupil
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
IS reform needed? Is it through you?
The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need
to accomplish it.
You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood,
complexion, clean and sweet?
Do you not see how it would serve to have such a Body and Soul, that
when you enter the crowd, an atmosphere of desire and command
enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your
personality?
O the magnet! the flesh over and over!
Go, dear friend! if need be, give up all else, and commence to-day to
inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness,
elevatedness;
Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your own
personality.
Scheme | axx xxxxxB xaccxB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101111 010001100100010011 10101 1111111111111 010101 11111111111010011 1110011101010001 10110100110111 0100 10100110010 1111111111001111 010111101011 1 11111001001111 0100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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