I Am The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FAAA CBCB AAAA AGAH IJIJ KDKD IBLB| I am the song that rests upon the cloud | A |
| I am the sun | B |
| I am the dawn the day the hiding shroud | A |
| When dusk is done | B |
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| I am the changing colours of the tree | C |
| The flower uncurled | A |
| I am the melancholy of the sea | C |
| I am the world | A |
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| The other souls that passing in their place | D |
| Each in their groove | E |
| Out stretching hands that chain me and embrace | D |
| Speak and reprove | E |
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| O atom of that law by which the earth | F |
| Is poised and whirled | A |
| Behold you hurrying with the crowd assert | A |
| You are the world | A |
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| Am I not one with all the things that be | C |
| Warm in the sun | B |
| All that my ears can hear or eyes can see | C |
| Till all be done | B |
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| Of song and shine of changing leaf apart | A |
| Of bud uncurled | A |
| With all the senses pulsing at my heart | A |
| I am the world | A |
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| One day the song that drifts upon the wind | A |
| I shall not hear | G |
| Nor shall the rosy shoots to eyes grown blind | A |
| Again appear | H |
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| Deaf in the dark I shall arise and throw | I |
| From off my soul | J |
| The withered world with all its joy and woe | I |
| That was my goal | J |
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| I shall arise and like a shooting star | K |
| Slip from my place | D |
| So lingering see the old world from afar | K |
| Revolve in space | D |
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| And know more things than all the wise may know | I |
| Till all be done | B |
| Till One shall come who breathing on the stars | L |
| Blows out the sun | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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