Analysis of Not Youth Pertains To Me
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
NOT youth pertains to me,
Nor delicatesse--I cannot beguile the time with talk;
Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;
In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still--for learning.
inures not to me;
Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me--yet there are two or three things
inure to me;
I have nourish'd the wounded, and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
And at intervals, waiting, or in the midst of camp,
Composed these songs.
Scheme | ABCDAEAFGH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110111 11110010111 100010100101100 001100100101110 1111 1010011111111111 0111 1110010011001010 0110010100111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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