Assurances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJKLMNOPQRS RKTUVWXY| I NEED no assurances I am a man who is preoccupied of his own Soul | A |
| I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and | B |
| face I am cognizant of are now looking faces I am not | C |
| cognizant of calm and actual faces | D |
| I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in | E |
| any iota of the world | F |
| I do not doubt I am limitless and that the universes are limitless | G |
| in vain I try to think how limitless | G |
| I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their | H |
| swift sports through the air on purpose and that I shall one | I |
| day be eligible to do as much as they and more than they | J |
| I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of | K |
| years | L |
| I do not doubt interiors have their interiors and exteriors have | M |
| their exteriors and that the eye sight has another eye sight | N |
| and the hearing another hearing and the voice another voice | O |
| I do not doubt that the passionately wept deaths of young men are | P |
| provided for and that the deaths of young women and the | Q |
| deaths of little children are provided for | R |
| Did you think Life was so well provided for and Death the purport | S |
| of all Life is not well provided for | R |
| I do not doubt that wrecks at sea no matter what the horrors of | K |
| them no matter whose wife child husband father lover has | T |
| gone down are provided for to the minutest points | U |
| I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen any where at any | V |
| time is provided for in the inherences of things | W |
| I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space but I | X |
| believe Heavenly Death provides for all | Y |
Walt Whitman
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