Analysis of The caregiver
His boyhood hero was Walt Whitman,
Caregiver on the bloody battlefields of 1860...
Both poet and nurse Whitman gave it all.
The modern caregiver lived until age 90
He had helped everyone he could
Women and children, the poor and hungry.
He nursed the sick until the wee hours.
On his last night, he heard the cock crow,
In the way, you do when your life is o'er;
I can do more, "He cried out!"
Your reward awaits Walter, come home!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 101010101 1100110111 010101011 1111011 1001001010 1101010110 111111011 00111111110 1111111 101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on July 11, 2018
Modified on March 14, 2023
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