Analysis of Out from Concord
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." –Thoreau
Walden Pond is in my heart,
And I feel like Thoreau.
So, farewell world, I must depart
And go where wise men go ...
Out from Concord's busy streets,
And into Nature's womb:
The place where truth and beauty meet,
And merge like bride and groom.
| Scheme | X ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010111110100011100010111011111111111011111101011111011 1011011 011101 1111101 011111 111101 001101 01110101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 501 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) met a period in his life when the luxuries [encumbrances] of Concord seemed too distracting from life's real internal meaning. He would eventually divest himself of Concord's burdens and seek the raw meaning of existence out in the woods near Walden Pond ...
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