Analysis of To A Western Boy
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
O BOY of the West!
To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you become eleve of
mine:
Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins;
If you be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select
lovers,
Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?
| Scheme | ABCDEFC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 11101101111110111 1 11111101011 111110001011001110001 10 11111111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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