As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHIJ KLM NOPQRS TUVWTXYS ZA2B2MS| AS I walk these broad majestic days of peace | A |
| For the war the struggle of blood finish'd wherein O terrific | B |
| Ideal | C |
| Against vast odds having gloriously won | D |
| Now thou stridest on yet perhaps in time toward denser wars | E |
| Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests dangers | F |
| Longer campaigns and crises labors beyond all others | F |
| As I walk solitary unattended | G |
| Around me I hear that eclat of the world politics produce | H |
| The announcements of recognized things science | I |
| The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions | J |
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| I see the ships they will last a few years | K |
| The vast factories with their foremen and workmen | L |
| And here the indorsement of all and do not object to it | M |
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| But I too announce solid things | N |
| Science ships politics cities factories are not nothing I watch | O |
| them | P |
| Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring | Q |
| triumphantly moving and grander heaving in sight | R |
| They stand for realities all is as it should be | S |
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| Then my realities | T |
| What else is so real as mine | U |
| Libertad and the divine average Freedom to every slave on the face | V |
| of the earth | W |
| The rapt promises and lumin of seers the spiritual world these | T |
| centuries lasting songs | X |
| And our visions the visions of poets the most solid announcements | Y |
| of any | S |
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| For we support all fuse all | Z |
| After the rest is done and gone we remain | A2 |
| There is no final reliance but upon us | B2 |
| Democracy rests finally upon us I my brethren begin it | M |
| And our visions sweep through eternity | S |
Walt Whitman
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