Locations and Times
Locations and times--what is it in me that meets them all, wheneverand wherever, and makes me at home?Forms, colors, densities, odors--what is it in me that correspondswith them?
Words in this poem
- wherever adv.
- At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Locations and Times is in the public domain. This text is taken from Leaves of Grass, Project Gutenberg ebook #1322; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Walt Whitman, Locations and Times, in Leaves of Grass (1855–1892), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #1322, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/whitman-leaves/locations-and-times.html, id L03934.
Form and metre
Locations and Times is 4 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 11.2 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Locations and times--what is it in me that meets them all, whenever | 17 | ˘/˘···········˘/˘ |
| and wherever, and makes me at home? | 9 | ·˘/˘····· |
| Forms, colors, densities, odors--what is it in me that corresponds | 17 | ·/˘/˘˘/˘·······˘/ |
| with them? | 2 | ·· |
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