A Riddle Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMNO PQRST UU UUVUUWXUYWZA2B2C2 FUU| rpest ear unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind | A |
| Nor lore nor fame nor happiness nor wealth | B |
| And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world | C |
| incessantly | D |
| Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss | E |
| Open but still a secret the real of the real an illusion | F |
| Costless vouchsafed to each yet never man the owner | G |
| Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme historians in prose | H |
| Which sculptor never chisel'd yet nor painter painted | I |
| Which vocalist never sung nor orator nor actor ever utter'd | J |
| Invoking here and now I challenge for my song | K |
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| Indifferently 'mid public private haunts in solitude | L |
| Behind the mountain and the wood | M |
| Companion of the city's busiest streets through the assemblage | N |
| It and its radiations constantly glide | O |
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| In looks of fair unconscious babes | P |
| Or strangely in the coffin'd dead | Q |
| Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night | R |
| As some dissolving delicate film of dreams | S |
| Hiding yet lingering | T |
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| Two little breaths of words comprising it | U |
| Two words yet all from first to last comprised in it | U |
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| How ardently for it | U |
| How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it | U |
| How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd | V |
| How much of genius boldly staked and lost for it | U |
| What countless stores of beauty love ventur'd for it | U |
| How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it and | W |
| shall be to the end | X |
| How all heroic martyrdoms to it | U |
| How justified by it the horrors evils battles of the earth | Y |
| How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it in every age and | W |
| land have drawn men's eyes | Z |
| Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast the sky the islands and the | A2 |
| cliffs | B2 |
| Or midnight's silent glowing northern lights unreachable | C2 |
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| Haply God's riddle it so vague and yet so certain | F |
| The soul for it and all the visible universe for it | U |
| And heaven at last for it | U |
Walt Whitman
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