Analysis of Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
NOT my enemies ever invade me--no harm to my pride from them I fear;
But the lovers I recklessly love--lo! how they master me!
Lo! me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110010011111111111 101011001111101 11101001001111 100101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 249 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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