Analysis of Native Moments

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




NATIVE moments! when you come upon me--Ah you are here now! Give me now
libidinous joys only! Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life
coarse and rank! To-day, I go consort with nature's darlings--to-night too;
I am for those who believe in loose delights--I share the midnight orgies
of young men; I dance with the dancers, and drink with the drinkers; The
echoes ring with our indecent calls; I take for my love some prostitute--I
pick out some low person for my dearest friend, He shall be lawless, rude,
illiterate--he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play
a part no longer--Why should I exile myself from my companions? 10 O you
shunn'd persons! I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your
midst--I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101011101111111111 111011011110111 10111110111010111 11111010101110110 1111110100110100 1011100101111111101 11111011101111101 0100111101110111111 01110111111101011 1101111111111101 11111101111111110101
Characters 806
Words 152
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 56
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 620
Words per stanza (avg) 150
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 21, 2023

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