Analysis of To Rich Givers
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept,
A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money--these, as I
rendezvous with my poems;
A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through The States--
Why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? Why to advertise for
them?
For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman;
For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of
the universe.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1111110001 0101000101001010111 101110 0100100101110101 111101111111101 1 11111110110011010 11010110111001011011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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