As I Ponder'd In Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGGG IJKLMNOPGG| AS I ponder'd in silence | A |
| Returning upon my poems considering lingering long | B |
| A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect | C |
| Terrible in beauty age and power | D |
| The genius of poets of old lands | E |
| As to me directing like flame its eyes | F |
| With finger pointing to many immortal songs | G |
| And menacing voice What singest thou it said | H |
| Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever enduring bards | G |
| And that is the theme of War the fortune of battles | G |
| The making of perfect soldiers | G |
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| Be it so then I answer'd | I |
| I too haughty Shade also sing war and a longer and greater one | J |
| than any | K |
| Waged in my book with varying fortune with flight advance and | L |
| retreat Victory deferr'd and wavering | M |
| Yet methinks certain or as good as certain at the last The | N |
| field the world | O |
| For life and death for the Body and for the eternal Soul | P |
| Lo too am come chanting the chant of battles | G |
| I above all promote brave soldiers | G |
Walt Whitman
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