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?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 310
Words 59
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7

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