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 DCKKLI| Twenty 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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