As At Thy Portals Also Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFEGHIJ| AS at thy portals also death | A |
| Entering thy sovereign dim illimitable grounds | B |
| To memories of my mother to the divine blending maternity | C |
| To her buried and gone yet buried not gone not from me | C |
| I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still | D |
| I sit by the form in the coffin | E |
| I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips the cheeks | F |
| the closed eyes in the coffin | E |
| To her the ideal woman practical spiritual of all of earth life | G |
| love to me the best | H |
| I grave a monumental line before I go amid these songs | I |
| And set a tombstone here | J |
Walt Whitman
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