Walt Whitman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG AHIJKLMNO IPQFG| The master songs are ended and the man | A |
| That sang them is a name And so is God | B |
| A name and so is love and life and death | C |
| And everything But we who are too blind | D |
| To read what we have written or what faith | E |
| Has written for us do not understand | F |
| We only blink and wonder | G |
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| Last night it was the song that was the man | A |
| But now it is the man that is the song | H |
| We do not hear him very much to day | I |
| His piercing and eternal cadence rings | J |
| Too pure for us too powerfully pure | K |
| Too lovingly triumphant and too large | L |
| But there are some that hear him and they know | M |
| That he shall sing to morrow for all men | N |
| And that all time shall listen | O |
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| The master songs are ended Rather say | I |
| No songs are ended that are ever sung | P |
| And that no names are dead names When we write | Q |
| Men's letters on proud marble or on sand | F |
| We write them there forever | G |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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