Analysis of In The New Garden In All The Parts

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)



IN the new garden, in all the parts,
   In cities now, modern, I wander,
   Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet,
   Days, places, indifferent--though various, the same,
   Time, Paradise, the Mannahatta, the prairies, finding me unchanged,
   Death indifferent--Is it that I lived long since? Was I buried very
         long ago?
   For all that, I may now be watching you here, this moment;
   For the future, with determined will, I seek--the woman of the
         future,
   You, born years, centuries after me, I seek.


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Poetic Form
Metre 001100101 010110110 1010110111101001 110010110001 1100101010101 10101111111111010 101 11111111011110 1010101011101010 10 11110010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 551
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 391
Words per stanza (avg) 86
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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