Analysis of Behavior
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
BEHAVIOR--fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself,
Nature and the Soul expressed--America and freedom expressed--In it
the finest art,
In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to have their chance,
In it physique, intellect, faith--in it just as much as to manage an
army or a city, or to write a book--perhaps more,
The youth, the laboring person, the poor person, rivalling all the
rest--perhaps outdoing the rest,
The effects of the universe no greater than its;
For there is nothing in the whole universe that can be more effective
than a man's or woman's daily behavior can be,
In any position, in any one of These States.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011010011101101 100010101000100101 0101 0111001001111 01011010111111101 10101011101011 010100100110110 1011001 001101011011 11110001101111010 1011101001011 0100100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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