A Proadway Pageant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEEFGHE IJEKLMNFOPEEMQRSJFNT DU EEVU UEDIWU NDHX EYESZNIA2D EEA2B2C2D2NNE2NFNF2G 2JNANEETA2H2 EEEI2EEEPJ2J2EK2ENEE EJ2H2L2H2 EDJ2J2 EL2F2J2H2E HJ2M2N2J2 EJ2O2EOVER the western sea hither from Niphon come | A |
Courteous the swart cheek'd two sworded envoys | B |
Leaning back in their open barouches bare headed impassive | C |
Ride to day through Manhattan | D |
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Libertad | E |
I do not know whether others behold what I behold | E |
In the procession along with the nobles of Asia the errand | E |
bearers | F |
Bringing up the rear hovering above around or in the ranks | G |
marching | H |
But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad | E |
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When million footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements | I |
When the thunder cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love | J |
When the round mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit | E |
their salutes | K |
When the fire flashing guns have fully alerted me when heaven clouds | L |
canopy my city with a delicate thin haze | M |
When gorgeous the countless straight stems the forests at the | N |
wharves thicken with colors | F |
When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak | O |
When pennants trail and street festoons hang from the windows | P |
When Broadway is entirely given up to foot passengers and foot | E |
standers when the mass is densest | E |
When the fa ades of the houses are alive with people when eyes gaze | M |
riveted tens of thousands at a time | Q |
When the guests from the islands advance when the pageant moves | R |
forward visible | S |
When the summons is made when the answer that waited thousands of | J |
years answers | F |
I too arising answering descend to the pavements merge with the | N |
crowd and gaze with them | T |
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Superb faced Manhattan | D |
Comrade Americanos to us then at last the Orient comes | U |
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To us my city | E |
Where our tall topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite | E |
sides to walk in the space between | V |
To day our Antipodes comes | U |
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The Originatress comes | U |
The nest of languages the bequeather of poems the race of eld | E |
Florid with blood pensive rapt with musings hot with passion | D |
Sultry with perfume with ample and flowing garments | I |
With sunburnt visage with intense soul and glittering eyes | W |
The race of Brahma comes | U |
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See my cantabile these and more are flashing to us from the | N |
procession | D |
As it moves changing a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing | H |
before us | X |
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For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only | E |
Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears the Asiatic continent itself | Y |
appears the Past the dead | E |
The murky night morning of wonder and fable inscrutable | S |
The envelop'd mysteries the old and unknown hive bees | Z |
The North the sweltering South eastern Assyria the Hebrews the | N |
Ancient of Ancients | I |
Vast desolated cities the gliding Present all of these and more | A2 |
are in the pageant procession | D |
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Geography the world is in it | E |
The Great Sea the brood of islands Polynesia the coast beyond | E |
The coast you henceforth are facing you Libertad from your | A2 |
Western golden shores | B2 |
The countries there with their populations the millions en masse | C2 |
are curiously here | D2 |
The swarming market places the temples with idols ranged along the | N |
sides or at the end bonze brahmin and lama | N |
The mandarin farmer merchant mechanic and fisherman | E2 |
The singing girl and the dancing girl the ecstatic person the | N |
secluded Emperors | F |
Confucius himself the great poets and heroes the warriors the | N |
castes all | F2 |
Trooping up crowding from all directions from the Altay mountains | G2 |
From Thibet from the four winding and far flowing rivers of | J |
China | N |
From the Southern peninsulas and the demi continental islands from | A |
Malaysia | N |
These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me and | E |
are seiz'd by me | E |
And I am seiz'd by them and friendlily held by them | T |
Till as here them all I chant Libertad for themselves and for | A2 |
you | H2 |
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For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant | E |
I am the chanter I chant aloud over the pageant | E |
I chant the world on my Western Sea | E |
I chant copious the islands beyond thick as stars in the sky | I2 |
I chant the new empire grander than any before As in a vision it | E |
comes to me | E |
I chant America the Mistress I chant a greater supremacy | E |
I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those | P |
groups of sea islands | J2 |
I chant my sail ships and steam ships threading the archipelagoes | J2 |
I chant my stars and stripes fluttering in the wind | E |
I chant commerce opening the sleep of ages having done its work | K2 |
races reborn refresh'd | E |
Lives works resumed The object I know not but the old the | N |
Asiatic renew'd as it must be | E |
Commencing from this day surrounded by the world | E |
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And you Libertad of the world | E |
You shall sit in the middle well pois'd thousands of years | J2 |
As to day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you | H2 |
As to morrow from the other side the Queen of England sends her | L2 |
eldest son to you | H2 |
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The sign is reversing the orb is enclosed | E |
The ring is circled the journey is done | D |
The box lid is but perceptibly open'd nevertheless the perfume pours | J2 |
copiously out of the whole box | J2 |
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Young Libertad | E |
With the venerable Asia the all mother | L2 |
Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad for you are all | F2 |
Bend your proud neck to the long off mother now sending messages | J2 |
over the archipelagoes to you | H2 |
Bend your proud neck low for once young Libertad | E |
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Were the children straying westward so long so wide the tramping | H |
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so | J2 |
long | M2 |
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way all the while | N2 |
unknown for you for reasons | J2 |
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They are justified they are accomplish'd they shall now be turn'd | E |
the other way also to travel toward you thence | J2 |
They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake | O2 |
Libertad | E |
Walt Whitman
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