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.


Scheme AAAAAAABACAD
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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Walt Whitman

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