A Carol Of Harvest, For 1867 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A song of the good green grassA
A song no more of the city streetsB
A song of farms a song of the soil of fieldsC
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A song with the smell of sun dried hay where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch forkD
A song tasting of new wheat and of fresh husk'd maizeE
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For the lands and for these passionate days and for myselfF
Now I awhile return to thee O soil of Autumn fieldsC
Reclining on thy breast giving myself to theeG
Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heartH
Tuning a verse for theeG
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O Earth that hast no voice confide to me a voiceI
O harvest of my lands O boundless summer growthsJ
O lavish brown parturient earth O infinite teeming wombK
A verse to seek to see to narrate theeG
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Ever upon this stageL
Is acted God's calm annual dramaM
Gorgeous processions songs of birdsN
Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soulO
The heaving sea the waves upon the shore the musical strong wavesP
The woods the stalwart trees the slender tapering treesQ
The flowers the grass the lilliput countless armies of the grassA
The heat the showers the measureless pasturagesA
The scenery of the snows the winds' free orchestraM
The stretching light hung roof of clouds the clear cerulean and the bulging silvery fringesA
The high dilating stars the placid beckoning starsA
The moving flocks and herds the plains and emerald meadowsA
The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and productsA
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Fecund America To dayR
Thou art all over set in births and joysA
Thou groan'st with riches thy wealth clothes thee as with a swathing garmentS
Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessionsA
A myriad twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesneT
As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into portU
As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of theeG
Thou envy of the globe thou miracleV
Thou bathed choked swimming in plentyG
Thou lucky Mistress of the tranquil barnsA
Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world and lookest East and lookest WestW
Dispensatress that by a word givest a thousand miles that giv'st a million farms and missest nothingX
Thou All Acceptress thou Hospitable thou only art hospitable as God is hospitableV
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When late I sang sad was my voiceA
Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of conflictY
In the midst of the armies the Heroes I stoodZ
Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dyingX
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But now I sing not WarA2
Nor the measur'd march of soldiers nor the tents of campsA
Nor the regiments hastily coming up deploying in line of battleV
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No more the dead and woundedB2
No more the sad unnatural shows of WarA2
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Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks the first forth stepping armiesA
Ask room alas the ghastly ranks the armies dread that follow'dC2
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Pass pass ye proud brigadesA
So handsome dress'd in blue with your tramping sinewy legsA
With your shoulders young and strong with your knapsacks and your musketsA
How elate I stood and watch'd you where starting off you march'dD2
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Pass then rattle drums againT
Scream you steamers on the river out of whistles loud and shrill your salutesA
For an army heaves in sight O another gathering armyG
Swarming trailing on the rear O you dread accruing armyG
O you regiments so piteous with your mortal diarrhoea with your feverE2
O my land's maimed darlings with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutchF2
Lo your pallid army follow'dC2
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But on these days of brightnessA
On the far stretching beauteous landscape the roads and lanes the high piled farm wagons and the fruits and barnsA
Shall the dead intrudeG2
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Ah the dead to me mar not they fit well in NatureE2
They fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grassA
And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far marginT
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Nor do I forget you departedB2
Nor in winter or summer my lost onesA
But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace like pleasing phantomsA
Your dear memories rising glide silently by meG
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I saw the day the return of the HeroesA
Yet the Heroes never surpass'd shall never returnT
Them that day I saw notH2
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I saw the interminable Corps I saw the processions of armiesA
I saw them approaching defiling by with divisionsA
Streaming northward their work done camping awhile in clusters of mighty campsA
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No holiday soldiers youthful yet veteransA
Worn swart handsome strong of the stock of homestead and workshopI2
Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty marchJ2
Inured on many a hard fought bloody fieldK2
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A pause the armies waitL2
A million flush'd embattled conquerors waitL2
The world too waits then soft as breaking night and sure as dawnT
They melt they disappearM2
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Exult indeed O lands victorious landsA
Not there your victory on those red shuddering fieldsA
But here and hence your victoryG
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Melt melt away ye armies disperse ye blue clad soldiersA
Resolve ye back again give up for good your deadly armsA
Other the arms the fields henceforth for you or South or North or East or WestW
With saner wars sweet wars life giving warsA
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Loud O my throat and clear O soulO
The season of thanks and the voice of full yieldingX
The chant of joy and power for boundless fertilityG
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All till'd and untill'd fields expand before meG
I see the true arenas of my race or first or lastN2
Man's innocent and strong arenasA
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I see the Heroes at other toilsA
I see well wielded in their hands the better weaponsA
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I see where America Mother of AllO2
Well pleased with full spanning eye gazes forth dwells longP2
And counts the varied gathering of the productsA
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Busy the far the sunlit panoramaM
Prairie orchard and yellow grain of the NorthQ2
Cotton and rice of the South and Louisianian caneT
Open unseeded fallows rich fields of clover and timothyG
Kine and horses feeding and droves of sheep and swineT
And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brookR2
And healthy uplands with their herby perfumed breezesA
And the good green grass that delicate miracle the ever recurring grassA
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Toil on Heroes harvest the productsA
Not alone on those warlike fields the Mother of AllO2
With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd youS2
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Toil on Heroes toil well Handle the weapons wellT2
The Mother of All yet here as ever she watches youS2
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Well pleased America thou beholdestN2
Over the fields of the West those crawling monstersA
The human divine inventions the labor saving implementsA
Beholdest moving in every direction imbued as with life the revolving hay rakesA
The steam power reaping machines and the horse power machinesA
The engines thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain well separating the straw the nimble work of the patent pitch forkD
Beholdest the newer saw mill the southern cotton gin and the rice cleanserE2
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Beneath thy look O MaternalV
With these and else and with their own strong hands the Heroes harvestN2
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All gather and all harvestN2
Yet but for thee O Powerful not a scythe might swing as now in securityN2
Not a maize stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peaceA
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Under Thee only they harvest even but a wisp of hay under thy great face onlyN2
Harvest the wheat of Ohio Illinois Wisconsin every barbed spear under theeN2
Harvest the maize of Missouri Kentucky Tennessee each ear in its light green sheathU2
Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barnsA
Oats to their bins the white potato the buckwheat of Michigan to theirsA
Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the CarolinasA
Clip the wool of California or PennsylvaniaM
Cut the flax in the Middle States or hemp or tobacco in the BordersA
Pick the pea and the bean or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vinesA
Or aught that ripens in all These States or North or SouthV2
Under the beaming sun and under TheeN2

Walt Whitman



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