As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CBDAEAFGAHI JKALJMNAB OBPQJRSTU IVBWWEAXAA AAAPYZAA2ALAULAAA AZB2AJBC2D2JE2YAAF2G 2AH2AI2AF2J2BSF2K2AL L2 F2ZM2N2B2L2AAO2O2ZP2 JQ2JR2VQ2AUAAAAABS2Q 2JZAA J2AD2D2 AI2T2 U2J2J2V2W2 YADF2AAJ2DEF2AEABX2B 2AAE2AS a strong bird on pinions free | A |
Joyous the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving | B |
Such be the thought I'd think to day of thee America | B |
Such be the recitative I'd bring to day for thee | A |
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I bring thee not | C |
Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long | B |
Nor rhyme nor the classics nor perfume of foreign court or indoor | D |
library | A |
But an odor I'd bring to day as from forests of pine in the north in | E |
Maine or breath of an Illinois prairie | A |
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee or from Texas | F |
uplands or Florida's glades | G |
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes or Yosemite | A |
And murmuring under pervading all I'd bring the rustling sea sound | H |
That endlessly sounds from the two great seas of the world | I |
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And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains O Union | J |
Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee mind formulas fitted | K |
for thee real and sane and large as these and thee | A |
Thou mounting higher diving deeper than we knew thou | L |
transcendental Union | J |
By thee Fact to be justified blended with Thought | M |
Thought of Man justified blended with God | N |
Through thy Idea lo the immortal Reality | A |
Through thy Reality lo the immortal Idea | B |
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Brain of the New World what a task is thine | O |
To formulate the Modern Out of the peerless grandeur of the | B |
modern | P |
Out of Thyself comprising Science to recast Poems Churches Art | Q |
Recast may be discard them end them May be their work is done | J |
who knows | R |
By vision hand conception on the background of the mighty past | S |
the dead | T |
To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present | U |
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And yet thou living present brain heir of the dead the Old World | I |
brain | V |
Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long | B |
Thou carefully prepared by it so long haply thou but unfoldest it | W |
only maturest it | W |
It to eventuate in thee the essence of the by gone time contain'd in | E |
thee | A |
Its poems churches arts unwitting to themselves destined with | X |
reference to thee | A |
The fruit of all the Old ripening to day in thee | A |
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Sail sail thy best ship of Democracy | A |
Of value is thy freight 'tis not the Present only | A |
The Past is also stored in thee | A |
Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone not of thy western | P |
continent alone | Y |
Earth's r sum entire floats on thy keel O ship is steadied by thy | Z |
spars | A |
With thee Time voyages in trust the antecedent nations sink or swim | A2 |
with thee | A |
With all their ancient struggles martyrs heroes epics wars thou | L |
bear'st the other continents | A |
Theirs theirs as much as thine the destination port triumphant | U |
Steer steer with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman thou | L |
carryest great companions | A |
Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee | A |
And royal feudal Europe sails with thee | A |
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Beautiful World of new superber Birth that rises to my eyes | A |
Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western sky | Z |
Emblem of general Maternity lifted above all | B2 |
Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons | A |
Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession | J |
issuing | B |
Acceding from such gestation taking and giving continual strength | C2 |
and life | D2 |
World of the Real world of the twain in one | J |
World of the Soul born by the world of the real alone led to | E2 |
identity body by it alone | Y |
Yet in beginning only incalculable masses of composite precious | A |
materials | A |
By history's cycles forwarded by every nation language hither | F2 |
sent | G2 |
Ready collected here a freer vast electric World to be | A |
constructed here | H2 |
The true New World the world of orbic Science Morals Literatures | A |
to come | I2 |
Thou Wonder World yet undefined unform'd neither do I define thee | A |
How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future | F2 |
I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good | J2 |
I watch thee advancing absorbing the present transcending the | B |
past | S |
I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing as if the entire | F2 |
globe | K2 |
But I do not undertake to define thee hardly to comprehend thee | A |
I but thee name thee prophecy as now | L |
I merely thee ejaculate | L2 |
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Thee in thy future | F2 |
Thee in thy only permanent life career thy own unloosen'd mind thy | Z |
soaring spirit | M2 |
Thee as another equally needed sun America radiant ablaze swift | N2 |
moving fructifying all | B2 |
Thee risen in thy potent cheerfulness and joy thy endless great | L2 |
hilarity | A |
Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long that weigh'd so | A |
long upon the mind of man | O2 |
The doubt suspicion dread of gradual certain decadence of man | O2 |
Thee in thy larger saner breeds of Female Male thee in thy | Z |
athletes moral spiritual South North West East | P2 |
To thy immortal breasts Mother of All thy every daughter son | J |
endear'd alike forever equal | Q2 |
Thee in thy own musicians singers artists unborn yet but certain | J |
Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization until which thy proudest | R2 |
material wealth and civilization must remain in vain | V |
Thee in thy all supplying all enclosing Worship thee in no single | Q2 |
bible saviour merely | A |
Thy saviours countless latent within thyself thy bibles incessant | U |
within thyself equal to any divine as any | A |
Thee in an education grown of thee in teachers studies students | A |
born of thee | A |
Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse thy high original festivals | A |
operas lecturers preachers | A |
Thee in thy ultimata the preparations only now completed the | B |
edifice on sure foundations tied | S2 |
Thee in thy pinnacles intellect thought thy topmost rational | Q2 |
joys thy love and godlike aspiration | J |
In thy resplendent coming literati thy full lung'd orators thy | Z |
sacerdotal bards kosmic savans | A |
These these in thee certain to come to day I prophecy | A |
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Land tolerating all accepting all not for the good alone all good | J2 |
for thee | A |
Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself | D2 |
Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself | D2 |
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Lo where arise three peerless stars | A |
To be thy natal stars my country Ensemble Evolution Freedom | I2 |
Set in the sky of Law | T2 |
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Land of unprecedented faith God's faith | U2 |
Thy soil thy very subsoil all upheav'd | J2 |
The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over now and | J2 |
hence for what it is boldly laid bare | V2 |
Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale | W2 |
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Not for success alone | Y |
Not to fair sail unintermitted always | A |
The storm shall dash thy face the murk of war and worse than war | D |
shall cover thee all over | F2 |
Wert capable of war its tug and trials Be capable of peace its | A |
trials | A |
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in peace not | J2 |
war | D |
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee thou in | E |
disease shalt swelter | F2 |
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws clinging upon thy breasts | A |
seeking to strike thee deep within | E |
Consumption of the worst moral consumption shall rouge thy face | A |
with hectic | B |
But thou shalt face thy fortunes thy diseases and surmount them | X2 |
all | B2 |
Whatever they are to day and whatever through time they may be | A |
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee | A |
While thou Time's spirals rounding ou | E2 |
Walt Whitman
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