As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCEC FGH IJK LMJNONNPQ NAC RST UVAW XYC DZ A2 B2C2D2 DE2 F2F2MG2 CH2AI2 J2K2 AYC I2I2WL2M2 I2I2 L2I2J2 XI2OI2WI2QI2I2I2YI2I 2 BW N2I2DTI2O2I2DI2 P2BI2L2I2I2RQ2R2OI2S 2T2T2DT2CU2I2V2WW2DX 2R2I2CY2Z2L2Z2I2I2L2 Z2DJ2I2L2Z2I2I2DI2A3 I2CM2B3DI2L2C3M2D3CE 3| AS I sat alone by blue Ontario's shore | A |
| As I mused of these mighty days and of peace return'd and the dead | B |
| that return no more | A |
| A Phantom gigantic superb with stern visage accosted me | C |
| Chant me the poem it said that comes from the soul of America | D |
| chant me the carol of victory | C |
| And strike up the marches of Libertad marches more powerful yet | E |
| And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy | C |
| - | |
| Democracy the destin'd conqueror yet treacherous lip smiles | F |
| everywhere | G |
| And Death and infidelity at every step | H |
| - | |
| - | |
| A Nation announcing itself | I |
| I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated | J |
| I reject none accept all then reproduce all in my own forms | K |
| - | |
| A breed whose proof is in time and deeds | L |
| What we are we are nativity is answer enough to objections | M |
| We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded | J |
| We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves | N |
| We are executive in ourselves We are sufficient in the variety of | O |
| ourselves | N |
| We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves | N |
| We stand self pois'd in the middle branching thence over the world | P |
| From Missouri Nebraska or Kansas laughing attacks to scorn | Q |
| - | |
| Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves | N |
| Whatever appears whatever does not appear we are beautiful or | A |
| sinful in ourselves only | C |
| - | |
| O mother O sisters dear | R |
| If we are lost no victor else has destroy'd us | S |
| It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night | T |
| - | |
| - | |
| Have you thought there could be but a single Supreme | U |
| There can be any number of Supremes One does not countervail | V |
| another any more than one eyesight countervails another or | A |
| one life countervails another | W |
| - | |
| All is eligible to all | X |
| All is for individuals All is for you | Y |
| No condition is prohibited not God's or any | C |
| - | |
| All comes by the body only health puts you rapport with the | D |
| universe | Z |
| - | |
| Produce great persons the rest follows | A2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| America isolated I sing | B2 |
| I say that works made here in the spirit of other lands are so much | C2 |
| poison in The States | D2 |
| - | |
| How dare such insects as we see assume to write poems for America | D |
| For our victorious armies and the offspring following the armies | E2 |
| - | |
| Piety and conformity to them that like | F2 |
| Peace obesity allegiance to them that like | F2 |
| I am he who tauntingly compels men women nations | M |
| Crying Leap from your seats and contend for your lives | G2 |
| - | |
| I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue questioning every | C |
| one I meet | H2 |
| Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before | A |
| Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense | I2 |
| - | |
| With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children | J2 |
| These clamors wild to a race of pride I give | K2 |
| - | |
| O lands would you be freer than all that has ever been before | A |
| If you would be freer than all that has been before come listen to | Y |
| me | C |
| - | |
| Fear grace Fear elegance civilization delicatesse | I2 |
| Fear the mellow sweet the sucking of honey juice | I2 |
| Beware the advancing mortal ripening of nature | W |
| Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and | L2 |
| men | M2 |
| - | |
| Ages precedents have long been accumulating undirected materials | I2 |
| America brings builders and brings its own styles | I2 |
| - | |
| The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and | L2 |
| pass'd to other spheres | I2 |
| A work remains the work of surpassing all they have done | J2 |
| - | |
| America curious toward foreign characters stands by its own at all | X |
| hazards | I2 |
| Stands removed spacious composite sound initiates the true use of | O |
| precedents | I2 |
| Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under | W |
| their forms | I2 |
| Takes the lesson with calmness perceives the corpse slowly borne | Q |
| from the house | I2 |
| Perceives that it waits a little while in the door that it was | I2 |
| fittest for its days | I2 |
| That its life has descended to the stalwart and well shaped heir who | Y |
| approaches | I2 |
| And that he shall be fittest for his days | I2 |
| - | |
| Any period one nation must lead | B |
| One land must be the promise and reliance of the future | W |
| - | |
| These States are the amplest poem | N2 |
| Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations | I2 |
| Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the | D |
| day and night | T |
| Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars | I2 |
| Here are the roughs beards friendliness combativeness the Soul | O2 |
| loves | I2 |
| Here the flowing trains here the crowds equality diversity the | D |
| Soul loves | I2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| Land of lands and bards to corroborate | P2 |
| Of them standing among them one lifts to the light his west bred | B |
| face | I2 |
| To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and | L2 |
| father's | I2 |
| His first parts substances earth water animals trees | I2 |
| Built of the common stock having room for far and near | R |
| Used to dispense with other lands incarnating this land | Q2 |
| Attracting it Body and Soul to himself hanging on its neck with | R2 |
| incomparable love | O |
| Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits | I2 |
| Making its cities beginnings events diversities wars vocal in | S2 |
| him | T2 |
| Making its rivers lakes bays embouchure in him | T2 |
| Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes Columbia | D |
| Niagara Hudson spending themselves lovingly in him | T2 |
| If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch he | C |
| stretching with them north or south | U2 |
| Spanning between them east and west and touching whatever is | I2 |
| between them | V2 |
| Growths growing from him to offset the growth of pine cedar | W |
| hemlock live oak locust chestnut hickory cottonwood | W2 |
| orange magnolia | D |
| Tangles as tangled in him as any cane brake or swamp | X2 |
| He likening sides and peaks of mountains forests coated with | R2 |
| northern transparent ice | I2 |
| Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna upland prairie | C |
| Through him flights whirls screams answering those of the fish | Y2 |
| hawk mocking bird night heron and eagle | Z2 |
| His spirit surrounding his country's spirit unclosed to good and | L2 |
| evil | Z2 |
| Surrounding the essences of real things old times and present times | I2 |
| Surrounding just found shores islands tribes of red aborigines | I2 |
| Weather beaten vessels landings settlements embryo stature and | L2 |
| muscle | Z2 |
| The haughty defiance of the Year war peace the formation of the | D |
| Constitution | J2 |
| The separate States the simple elastic scheme the immigrants | I2 |
| The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and | L2 |
| impregnable | Z2 |
| The unsurvey'd interior log houses clearings wild animals | I2 |
| hunters trappers | I2 |
| Surrounding the multiform agriculture mines temperature the | D |
| gestation of new States | I2 |
| Congress convening every Twelfth month the members duly coming up | A3 |
| from the uttermost parts | I2 |
| Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers especially | C |
| the young men | M2 |
| Responding their manners speech dress friendships the gait they | B3 |
| have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the | D |
| presence of superiors | I2 |
| The freshness and candor of their physiognomy the copiousness and | L2 |
| decision of their phrenology | C3 |
| The picturesque looseness of their carriage their fierceness when | M2 |
| wrong'd | D3 |
| The fluency of their speech their delight in music their curiosity | C |
| good temper and open handedness the whole com | E3 |
Walt Whitman
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores
As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores is a poem by Walt Whitman. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores poem by Walt Whitman
Best Poems of Walt Whitman
