Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFGHC IJJ KLMNBHOEFK BFK PQOR FFST UF VR WXY WFS ZIA2FS B2RC2D2SDCE2FFFFIN DJF2H HFG2SH2C G2FG2 G2SG2G2S F2JW NCG2BROTHER of all with generous hand | A |
Of thee pondering on thee as o'er thy tomb I and my Soul | B |
A thought to launch in memory of thee | C |
A burial verse for thee | C |
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What may we chant O thou within this tomb | D |
What tablets pictures hang for thee O millionaire | E |
The life thou lived'st we know not | F |
But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter 'mid the haunts of | G |
brokers | H |
Nor heroism thine nor war nor glory | C |
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Yet lingering yearning joining soul with thine | I |
If not thy past we chant we chant the future | J |
Select adorn the future | J |
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Lo Soul the graves of heroes | K |
The pride of lands the gratitudes of men | L |
The statues of the manifold famous dead Old World and New | M |
The kings inventors generals poets stretch wide thy vision | N |
Soul | B |
The excellent rulers of the races great discoverers sailors | H |
Marble and brass select from them with pictures scenes | O |
The histories of the lands the races bodied there | E |
In what they've built for graced and graved | F |
Monuments to their heroes | K |
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Silent my Soul | B |
With drooping lids as waiting ponder'd | F |
Turning from all the samples all the monuments of heroes | K |
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While through the interior vistas | P |
Noiseless uprose phantasmic as by night Auroras of the North | Q |
Lambent tableaux prophetic bodiless scenes | O |
Spiritual projections | R |
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In one among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd | F |
After his day's work done cleanly sweet air'd the gaslight | F |
burning | S |
The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove | T |
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In one the sacred parturition scene | U |
A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect child | F |
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In one at a bounteous morning meal | V |
Sat peaceful parents with contented sons | R |
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In one by twos and threes young people | W |
Hundreds concentering walk'd the paths and streets and roads | X |
Toward a tall domed school | Y |
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In one a trio beautiful | W |
Grandmother loving daughter loving daughter's daughter sat | F |
Chatting and sewing | S |
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In one along a suite of noble rooms | Z |
'Mid plenteous books and journals paintings on the walls fine | I |
statuettes | A2 |
Were groups of friendly journeymen mechanics young and old | F |
Reading conversing | S |
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All all the shows of laboring life | B2 |
City and country women's men's and children's | R |
Their wants provided for hued in the sun and tinged for once with | C2 |
joy | D2 |
Marriage the street the factory farm the house room lodging | S |
room | D |
Labor and toil the bath gymnasium play ground library | C |
college | E2 |
The student boy or girl led forward to be taught | F |
The sick cared for the shoeless shod the orphan father'd and | F |
mother'd | F |
The hungry fed the houseless housed | F |
The intentions perfect and divine | I |
The workings details haply human | N |
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O thou within this tomb | D |
From thee such scenes thou stintless lavish Giver | J |
Tallying the gifts of Earth large as the Earth | F2 |
Thy name an Earth with mountains fields and rivers | H |
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Nor by your streams alone you rivers | H |
By you your banks Connecticut | F |
By you and all your teeming life Old Thames | G2 |
By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod by you Patapsco | S |
You Hudson you endless Mississippi not by you alone | H2 |
But to the high seas launch my thought his memory | C |
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Lo Soul by this tomb's lambency | G2 |
The darkness of the arrogant standards of the world | F |
With all its flaunting aims ambitions pleasures | G2 |
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Old commonplace and rusty saws | G2 |
The rich the gay the supercilious smiled at long | S |
Now piercing to the marrow in my bones | G2 |
Fused with each drop my heart's blood jets | G2 |
Swim in ineffable meaning | S |
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Lo Soul the sphere requireth portioneth | F2 |
To each his share his measure | J |
The moderate to the moderate the ample to the ample | W |
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Lo Soul see'st thou not plain as the sun | N |
The only real wealth of wealth in generosity | C |
The only life of life in goodness | G2 |
Walt Whitman
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