Apostroph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEFGAHIHJKLDBAH MNAAOPAADQRASAHTUAAA AAVAWXYXVAANZADAAALO LA2B2LLAB2OAB2VB2C2V VD2B2B2B2VV| O 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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