Apostroph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEFGAHIHJKLDBAH MNAAOPAADQRASAHTUAAA AAVAWXYXVAANZADAAALO LA2B2LLAB2OAB2VB2C2V VD2B2B2B2VVO MATER O fils | A |
O brood continental | B |
O flowers of the prairies | A |
O space boundless O hum of mighty products | A |
O you teeming cities O so invincible turbulent proud | C |
O race of the future O women | D |
O fathers O you men of passion and the storm | E |
O native power only O beauty | F |
O yourself O God O divine average | G |
O you bearded roughs O bards O all those slumberers | A |
O arouse the dawn bird's throat sounds shrill Do you not hear the | H |
cock crowing | I |
O as I walk'd the beach I heard the mournful notes foreboding a | H |
tempest the low oft repeated shriek of the diver the long | J |
lived loon | K |
O I heard and yet hear angry thunder O you sailors O ships make | L |
quick preparation | D |
O from his masterful sweep the warning cry of the eagle | B |
Give way there all It is useless Give up your spoils | A |
O sarcasms Propositions O if the whole world should prove indeed a | H |
sham a sell | M |
O I believe there is nothing real but America and freedom | N |
O to sternly reject all except Democracy | A |
O imperator O who dare confront you and me | A |
O to promulgate our own O to build for that which builds for | O |
mankind | P |
O feuillage O North O the slope drained by the Mexican sea | A |
O all all inseparable ages ages ages | A |
O a curse on him that would dissever this Union for any reason | D |
whatever | Q |
O climates labors O good and evil O death | R |
O you strong with iron and wood O Personality | A |
O the village or place which has the greatest man or woman even if | S |
it be only a few ragged huts | A |
O the city where women walk in public processions in the streets the | H |
same as the men | T |
O a wan and terrible emblem by me adopted | U |
O shapes arising shapes of the future centuries | A |
O muscle and pluck forever for me | A |
O workmen and workwomen forever for me | A |
O farmers and sailors O drivers of horses forever for me | A |
O I will make the new bardic list of trades and tools | A |
O you coarse and wilful I love you | V |
O South O longings for my dear home O soft and sunny airs | A |
O pensive O I must return where the palm grows and the mocking bird | W |
sings or else I die | X |
O equality O organic compacts I am come to be your born poet | Y |
O whirl contest sounding and resounding I am your poet because I | X |
am part of you | V |
O days by gone Enthusiasts Antecedents | A |
O vast preparations for These States O years | A |
O what is now being sent forward thousands of years to come | N |
O mediums O to teach to convey the invisible faith | Z |
To promulge real things to journey through all The States | A |
O creation O to day O laws O unmitigated adoration | D |
O for mightier broods of orators artists and singers | A |
O for native songs carpenter's boatman's ploughman's songs | A |
shoemaker's songs | A |
O haughtiest growth of time O free and extatic | L |
O what I here preparing warble for | O |
O you hastening light O the sun of the world will ascend dazzling | L |
and take his height and you too will ascend | A2 |
O so amazing and so broad up there resplendent darting and | B2 |
burning | L |
O prophetic O vision staggered with weight of light with pouring | L |
glories | A |
O copious O hitherto unequalled | B2 |
O Libertad O compact O union impossible to dissever | O |
O my Soul O lips becoming tremulous powerless | A |
O centuries centuries yet ahead | B2 |
O voices of greater orators I pause I listen for you | V |
O you States Cities defiant of all outside authority I spring at | B2 |
once into your arms you I most love | C2 |
O you grand Presidentiads I wait for you | V |
New history New heroes I project you | V |
Visions of poets only you really last O sweep on sweep on | D2 |
O Death O you striding there O I cannot yet | B2 |
O heights O infinitely too swift and dizzy yet | B2 |
O purged lumine you threaten me more than I can stand | B2 |
O present I return while yet I may to you | V |
O poets to come I depend upon you | V |
Walt Whitman
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