Walt Whitman In The Civil War Hospitals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKALMJNO| Prescient my hands soothing | A |
| their foreheads by my love | B |
| I earn them in their presence | C |
| I am wretched as death They smile | D |
| to me of love They cheer me | E |
| and I smile These are stones | F |
| in the catapulting world | G |
| they fly bury themselves in flesh | H |
| in a wall in earth in midair | I |
| break against each other | J |
| and are without sound | K |
| I sent them catapulting | A |
| They outflew my voice | L |
| towards vacant spaces | M |
| but I have called them farther | J |
| to the stillness beyond | N |
| to death which I have praised | O |
David Ignatow
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