Analysis of Shut Not Your Doors, &c.
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet
needed most, I bring;
Forth from the army, the war emerging--a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing--the drift of it everything;
A book separate, not link'd with the rest, nor felt by the intellect,
But you, ye untold latencies, will thrill to every page;
Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing, eternal
Identity,
To Nature, encompassing these, encompassing God--to the joyous,
electric All,
To the sense of Death--and accepting, exulting in Death, in its turn,
the same as life,
The entrance of Man I sing. 10
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 1111101111111 10111 110100101001111 0111110011110 011011101111010 1110111111001 110110010010010 0100 11001001010011010 0101 10111001001001011 0111 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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