Analysis of 1855
I celebrate myself
And what I hereby cede you shall hereby cede,
For the country relinquished by me as good is relinquished by you
I loafe and convey to the United States
All the right, title and interest ... in my country, occupied and claimed,
I give and grieve ... meeting on spears of summer grass
I celebrate myself
And what I hold in reserve for my exclusive right and occupation
Shall be available from time to time
to the President, at his discretion, to be surveyed into lots
I acknowledge my dependence and promise to be friendly
I pledge and agree ... not to shelter or conceal offenders
but to deliver them up to the authorities for trial
I celebrate my miyó·x̣at
Who bore losses that we would not bear,
For nú·nim waq’í·swit that is nú·nim tito·qaná·wit
kúnk’u
I hold and cherish Article III
I protect and love our usual and accustomed places, our exclusive right
to take fish, to hunt, to gather roots and berries,
and pasture our horses on open land
I celebrate nú·nim wé·tes, our land:
Ka nú·nim wé·tes hí·wes nú·nim wé·tes kúnk’u
And our land is our land forever
I love and enlarge my soul
’ené·setwíse ’i·nim titó·qan, wax̣ nú·nim wé·tes; timí·pn’ise Wai·latpu
I love my people, and our land; I remember the Place of Rye Grass
We are one with our land
And our land is our ancestors’ land, always
All the land they are lighting, the land is shining bright
forever
nú·n wisí·x ku’stí·te nú·nim wé·tes
ka· nú·nim wé·tes hí·wes nú·nim ’anoqónmanm wé·tes, kúnk’u
hi’laká’wisix la’ámna wé· tesne, wé·tes hi’laká’wisa
kúnk’u
Scheme | Axx bxc Axxx xxx xxxD xexf fdg xxc fxeg bdbD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 01101111011 10100101111101011 11001100101 1011001001101001 110110111101 1101 01110011101010010 1101001111 1010110101101011 101010100101110 110011110101010 1101011100100110 1101111 111011111 1111111111011 11 110101001 1010110100001010100101 111111101010 01010101101 110111001101 11110011111100111 01011101010 1100111 111111111110011111 111100101101001111 1111101 01011101011 1011110011101 010 111111111001 1111001111111100111 11111001100111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,735 |
Words | 281 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
I celebrate myself And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease ... observing a spear of summer grass. —Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass”
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Written on 2022
Submitted by Drone232 on July 04, 2022
Modified on April 06, 2023
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