Analysis of O Hymen! O Hymenee!
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O HYMEN! O hymenee!
Why do you tantalize me thus?
O why sting me for a swift moment only?
Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift moment, you would
soon certainly kill me?
| Scheme | ABCDEC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1111011 11111011010 1111010111111 11011101001011011 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 257 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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