A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased, Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD DCEDFDGC C DDDHIDDCDG CC JHHDKCC DCKKLITwenty eight naked young women bathed by the shore | A |
Or near the bank of a woodland lake | B |
Twenty eight girls and all of them comely | C |
Worthy of Mack Sennett's camera and Florenz Ziegfield's | D |
Foolish Follies | D |
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They splashed and swam with the wondrous unconsciousness | D |
Of their youth and beauty | C |
In the full spontaneity and summer of the fieshes of | E |
awareness | D |
Heightened intensified and softened | F |
By the soft and the silk of the waters | D |
Blooded made ready by the energy set afire by the | G |
nakedness of the body | C |
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Electrified deified undenied | C |
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A young man of thirty years beholds them from a distance | D |
He lives in the dungeon of ten million dollars | D |
He is rich handsome and empty standing behind the linen curtains | D |
Beholding them | H |
Which girl does he think most desirable most beautiful | I |
They are all equally beautiful and desirable from the gold distance | D |
For if poverty darkens discrimination and makes | D |
perception too vivid | C |
The gold of wealth is also a form of blindness | D |
For has not a Frenchman said Although this is America | G |
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What he has said is not entirely relevant | C |
That a naked woman is a proof of the existence of God | C |
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Where is he going | J |
Is he going to be among them to splash and to laugh with them | H |
They did not see him although he saw them and was there among them | H |
He saw them as he would not have seen them had they been conscious | D |
Of him or conscious of men in complete depravation | K |
This is his enchantment and impoverishment | C |
As he possesses them in gaze only | C |
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He felt the wood secrecy he knew the June softness | D |
The warmth surrounding him crackled | C |
Held in by the mansard roof mansion | K |
He glimpsed the shadowy light on last year's brittle leaves fallen | K |
Looked over and overlooked glimpsed by the fall of death | L |
Winter's mourning and the May's renewal | I |
Delmore Schwartz
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