Analysis of We Two Boys Together Clinging
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going--North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying--elbows stretching--fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless--eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
No law less than ourselves owning--sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming--air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 10101010 101011010101010 100101101010 101010101010 1111001101010010 100 101101011010101 01101110 10101110101 10 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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