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
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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