How long is Walt Whitman’s poem Song of Myself?

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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos” — Walt Whitman American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.

"Song of Myself," the most significant work by American poet Walt Whitman, is composed of 52 sections and contains approximately 1,300 lines.1

First published in the 1855 collection Leaves of Grass, the poem underwent various revisions throughout the author's life, including the addition of the numbered sections that define its current structure.1