America, America! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD EFGH IIDJI KLMNI OPQRST| I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it | A |
| the lights the stars and the bridges | B |
| I am also by self appointment the laureate of the Atlantic | C |
| of the peoples' hearts crossing it | A |
| to new America | D |
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| I am burdened with the truck and chimera hope | E |
| acquired in the sweating sick excited passage | F |
| in steerage strange and estranged | G |
| Hence I must descry and describe the kingdom of emotion | H |
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| For I am a poet of the kindergarten in the city | I |
| and the cemetery in the city | I |
| And rapture and ragtime and also the secret city in the | D |
| heart and mind | J |
| This is the song of the natural city self in the th century | I |
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| It is true but only partly true that a city is a tyranny of | K |
| numbers | L |
| This is the chant of the urban metropolitan and | M |
| metaphysical self | N |
| After the first two World Wars of the th century | I |
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| This is the city self looking from window to lighted | O |
| window | P |
| When the squares and checks of faintly yellow light | Q |
| Shine at night upon a huge dim board and slab like tombs | R |
| Hiding many lives It is the city consciousness | S |
| Which sees and says more more and more always more | T |
Delmore Schwartz
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