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 NCG2| BROTHER 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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