As I Lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGHIJKLMKKAGA| AS I lay with my head in your lap Camerado | A |
| The confession I made I resume what I said to you in the open air I | B |
| resume | C |
| I know I am restless and make others so | D |
| I know my words are weapons full of danger full of death | E |
| Indeed I am myself the real soldier | F |
| It is not he there with his bayonet and not the red striped | A |
| artilleryman | G |
| For I confront peace security and all the settled laws to unsettle | H |
| them | I |
| I am more resolute because all have denied me than I could ever have | J |
| been had all accepted me | K |
| I heed not and have never heeded either experience cautions | L |
| majorities nor ridicule | M |
| And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me | K |
| And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me | K |
| Dear camerado I confess I have urged you onward with me and | A |
| still urge you without the least idea what is our destination | G |
| Or whether we shall be victorious or utterly quell'd and defeated | A |
Walt Whitman
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