As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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AS a strong bird on pinions freeA
Joyous the amplest spaces heavenward cleavingB
Such be the thought I'd think to day of thee AmericaB
Such be the recitative I'd bring to day for theeA
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I bring thee notC
Nor the compliments that have served their turn so longB
Nor rhyme nor the classics nor perfume of foreign court or indoorD
libraryA
But an odor I'd bring to day as from forests of pine in the north inE
Maine or breath of an Illinois prairieA
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee or from TexasF
uplands or Florida's gladesG
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes or YosemiteA
And murmuring under pervading all I'd bring the rustling sea soundH
That endlessly sounds from the two great seas of the worldI
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And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains O UnionJ
Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee mind formulas fittedK
for thee real and sane and large as these and theeA
Thou mounting higher diving deeper than we knew thouL
transcendental UnionJ
By thee Fact to be justified blended with ThoughtM
Thought of Man justified blended with GodN
Through thy Idea lo the immortal RealityA
Through thy Reality lo the immortal IdeaB
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Brain of the New World what a task is thineO
To formulate the Modern Out of the peerless grandeur of theB
modernP
Out of Thyself comprising Science to recast Poems Churches ArtQ
Recast may be discard them end them May be their work is doneJ
who knowsR
By vision hand conception on the background of the mighty pastS
the deadT
To limn with absolute faith the mighty living presentU
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And yet thou living present brain heir of the dead the Old WorldI
brainV
Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so longB
Thou carefully prepared by it so long haply thou but unfoldest itW
only maturest itW
It to eventuate in thee the essence of the by gone time contain'd inE
theeA
Its poems churches arts unwitting to themselves destined withX
reference to theeA
The fruit of all the Old ripening to day in theeA
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Sail sail thy best ship of DemocracyA
Of value is thy freight 'tis not the Present onlyA
The Past is also stored in theeA
Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone not of thy westernP
continent aloneY
Earth's r sum entire floats on thy keel O ship is steadied by thyZ
sparsA
With thee Time voyages in trust the antecedent nations sink or swimA2
with theeA
With all their ancient struggles martyrs heroes epics wars thouL
bear'st the other continentsA
Theirs theirs as much as thine the destination port triumphantU
Steer steer with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman thouL
carryest great companionsA
Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with theeA
And royal feudal Europe sails with theeA
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Beautiful World of new superber Birth that rises to my eyesA
Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western skyZ
Emblem of general Maternity lifted above allB2
Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sonsA
Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless processionJ
issuingB
Acceding from such gestation taking and giving continual strengthC2
and lifeD2
World of the Real world of the twain in oneJ
World of the Soul born by the world of the real alone led toE2
identity body by it aloneY
Yet in beginning only incalculable masses of composite preciousA
materialsA
By history's cycles forwarded by every nation language hitherF2
sentG2
Ready collected here a freer vast electric World to beA
constructed hereH2
The true New World the world of orbic Science Morals LiteraturesA
to comeI2
Thou Wonder World yet undefined unform'd neither do I define theeA
How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the futureF2
I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as goodJ2
I watch thee advancing absorbing the present transcending theB
pastS
I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing as if the entireF2
globeK2
But I do not undertake to define thee hardly to comprehend theeA
I but thee name thee prophecy as nowL
I merely thee ejaculateL2
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Thee in thy futureF2
Thee in thy only permanent life career thy own unloosen'd mind thyZ
soaring spiritM2
Thee as another equally needed sun America radiant ablaze swiftN2
moving fructifying allB2
Thee risen in thy potent cheerfulness and joy thy endless greatL2
hilarityA
Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long that weigh'd soA
long upon the mind of manO2
The doubt suspicion dread of gradual certain decadence of manO2
Thee in thy larger saner breeds of Female Male thee in thyZ
athletes moral spiritual South North West EastP2
To thy immortal breasts Mother of All thy every daughter sonJ
endear'd alike forever equalQ2
Thee in thy own musicians singers artists unborn yet but certainJ
Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization until which thy proudestR2
material wealth and civilization must remain in vainV
Thee in thy all supplying all enclosing Worship thee in no singleQ2
bible saviour merelyA
Thy saviours countless latent within thyself thy bibles incessantU
within thyself equal to any divine as anyA
Thee in an education grown of thee in teachers studies studentsA
born of theeA
Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse thy high original festivalsA
operas lecturers preachersA
Thee in thy ultimata the preparations only now completed theB
edifice on sure foundations tiedS2
Thee in thy pinnacles intellect thought thy topmost rationalQ2
joys thy love and godlike aspirationJ
In thy resplendent coming literati thy full lung'd orators thyZ
sacerdotal bards kosmic savansA
These these in thee certain to come to day I prophecyA
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Land tolerating all accepting all not for the good alone all goodJ2
for theeA
Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyselfD2
Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyselfD2
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Lo where arise three peerless starsA
To be thy natal stars my country Ensemble Evolution FreedomI2
Set in the sky of LawT2
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Land of unprecedented faith God's faithU2
Thy soil thy very subsoil all upheav'dJ2
The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over now andJ2
hence for what it is boldly laid bareV2
Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or baleW2
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Not for success aloneY
Not to fair sail unintermitted alwaysA
The storm shall dash thy face the murk of war and worse than warD
shall cover thee all overF2
Wert capable of war its tug and trials Be capable of peace itsA
trialsA
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in peace notJ2
warD
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee thou inE
disease shalt swelterF2
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws clinging upon thy breastsA
seeking to strike thee deep withinE
Consumption of the worst moral consumption shall rouge thy faceA
with hecticB
But thou shalt face thy fortunes thy diseases and surmount themX2
allB2
Whatever they are to day and whatever through time they may beA
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from theeA
While thou Time's spirals rounding ouE2

Walt Whitman



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