Analysis of Song of Myself

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



I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of
     the stars,
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand,
     and the egg of the wren,
And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre of the highest,
And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of
     heaven,
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all
     machinery,
And a cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any
     statue.
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of
     infidels.


Scheme ABCDEAFGHHIAJ
Poetic Form
Metre 10101111111011 01 00111000100111 001101 001110111010 0010101010101 10 0010010111111 0100 00110101101010 1 00111000111011 100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 478
Words 84
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 365
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on February 02, 2020

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. more…

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