Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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BROTHER of all with generous handA
Of thee pondering on thee as o'er thy tomb I and my SoulB
A thought to launch in memory of theeC
A burial verse for theeC
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What may we chant O thou within this tombD
What tablets pictures hang for thee O millionaireE
The life thou lived'st we know notF
But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter 'mid the haunts ofG
brokersH
Nor heroism thine nor war nor gloryC
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Yet lingering yearning joining soul with thineI
If not thy past we chant we chant the futureJ
Select adorn the futureJ
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Lo Soul the graves of heroesK
The pride of lands the gratitudes of menL
The statues of the manifold famous dead Old World and NewM
The kings inventors generals poets stretch wide thy visionN
SoulB
The excellent rulers of the races great discoverers sailorsH
Marble and brass select from them with pictures scenesO
The histories of the lands the races bodied thereE
In what they've built for graced and gravedF
Monuments to their heroesK
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Silent my SoulB
With drooping lids as waiting ponder'dF
Turning from all the samples all the monuments of heroesK
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While through the interior vistasP
Noiseless uprose phantasmic as by night Auroras of the NorthQ
Lambent tableaux prophetic bodiless scenesO
Spiritual projectionsR
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In one among the city streets a laborer's home appear'dF
After his day's work done cleanly sweet air'd the gaslightF
burningS
The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stoveT
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In one the sacred parturition sceneU
A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect childF
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In one at a bounteous morning mealV
Sat peaceful parents with contented sonsR
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In one by twos and threes young peopleW
Hundreds concentering walk'd the paths and streets and roadsX
Toward a tall domed schoolY
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In one a trio beautifulW
Grandmother loving daughter loving daughter's daughter satF
Chatting and sewingS
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In one along a suite of noble roomsZ
'Mid plenteous books and journals paintings on the walls fineI
statuettesA2
Were groups of friendly journeymen mechanics young and oldF
Reading conversingS
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All all the shows of laboring lifeB2
City and country women's men's and children'sR
Their wants provided for hued in the sun and tinged for once withC2
joyD2
Marriage the street the factory farm the house room lodgingS
roomD
Labor and toil the bath gymnasium play ground libraryC
collegeE2
The student boy or girl led forward to be taughtF
The sick cared for the shoeless shod the orphan father'd andF
mother'dF
The hungry fed the houseless housedF
The intentions perfect and divineI
The workings details haply humanN
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O thou within this tombD
From thee such scenes thou stintless lavish GiverJ
Tallying the gifts of Earth large as the EarthF2
Thy name an Earth with mountains fields and riversH
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Nor by your streams alone you riversH
By you your banks ConnecticutF
By you and all your teeming life Old ThamesG2
By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod by you PatapscoS
You Hudson you endless Mississippi not by you aloneH2
But to the high seas launch my thought his memoryC
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Lo Soul by this tomb's lambencyG2
The darkness of the arrogant standards of the worldF
With all its flaunting aims ambitions pleasuresG2
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Old commonplace and rusty sawsG2
The rich the gay the supercilious smiled at longS
Now piercing to the marrow in my bonesG2
Fused with each drop my heart's blood jetsG2
Swim in ineffable meaningS
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Lo Soul the sphere requireth portionethF2
To each his share his measureJ
The moderate to the moderate the ample to the ampleW
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Lo Soul see'st thou not plain as the sunN
The only real wealth of wealth in generosityC
The only life of life in goodnessG2

Walt Whitman



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