An Apple From Walt Whitman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEFGHIJ KJLJMN JOCPJQR PSTNJU| A | |
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| There's never been a poet where I live | B |
| but I grew up in the shade of Whitman's name | C |
| born in West Hills our hills he would have walked | D |
| our paths along the crest I walked Whitman Road | E |
| crashed the Whitman Drive In stole a book | F |
| from the sci fi rack at the Melville Whitman Pharmacy | G |
| even played lacrosse against Whitman High | H |
| we lost three times the guys from Halfway Hollow | I |
| to young men with Whitman in white on their varsity jackets | J |
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| My mother tells a story about Thanksgiving | K |
| back when kids went begging in rags and blackface | J |
| how Carrie Wicks's sister said she got | L |
| an apple from Walt Whitman right at his house | J |
| an old man with a beard The big kids laughed | M |
| knowing the white haired caretaker was no one | N |
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| I set no foot inside the Whitman House | J |
| or Leaves of Grass till after I went away | O |
| but I'm better having grown up with the name | C |
| the house and hills of a poet everyone knew | P |
| a poet big enough in the mothers' stories | J |
| for a girl to believe he came to the door with a long | Q |
| white beard and smiled and handed her an apple | R |
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| If a poet the size of Whitman named our few | P |
| square miles and a few in Jersey it's going to take | S |
| a lot more big ones to hand us all a welcome | T |
| sweet as a Thanksgiving apple from Walt Whitman | N |
| white haired care taker seed of mothers' stories | J |
| Appleseed of our poetry nourishment shade | U |
Eric Torgersen
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