1861 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCIKLIICMFN OEBPKB| ARM D year year of the struggle | A |
| No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year | B |
| Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas | C |
| piano | D |
| But as a strong man erect clothed in blue clothes advancing | E |
| carrying a rifle on your shoulder | F |
| With well gristled body and sunburnt face and hands with a knife in | G |
| the belt at your side | H |
| As I heard you shouting loud your sonorous voice ringing across the | I |
| continent | J |
| Your masculine voice O year as rising amid the great cities | C |
| Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen the | I |
| dwellers in Manhattan | K |
| Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and | L |
| Indiana | I |
| Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the | I |
| Alleghanies | C |
| Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania or on deck along | M |
| the Ohio river | F |
| Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers or at | N |
| Chattanooga on the mountain top | O |
| Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue bearing | E |
| weapons robust year | B |
| Heard your determin d voice launch d forth again and again | P |
| Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round lipp d cannon | K |
| I repeat you hurrying crashing sad distracted year | B |
Walt Whitman
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