America, America! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD EFGH IIDJI KLMNI OPQRSTI 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 |
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