Carol Of Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB CCECF CCG CHGIJ CKLMJ CCAC NOC CCOPCC QRDSCDFT CMM FCCCUU VWOCXCY DYZYA2Y CCDCB2DC2D2DE2ZC CGZCLCCCOTLOC CZF2G G2G2G2G2G2G2H2C FF F2I2TJ2C ICZZ K2K2K2K2K2YCCOL2 CM2FZINN2NH2NIN O2IDC CZNCEARTH round rolling compact suns moons animals all these are | A |
words to be said | B |
Watery vegetable sauroid advances beings premonitions lispings | C |
of the future | D |
Behold these are vast words to be said | B |
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Were you thinking that those were the words those upright lines | C |
those curves angles dots | C |
No those are not the words the substantial words are in the ground | E |
and sea | C |
They are in the air they are in you | F |
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Were you thinking that those were the words those delicious sounds | C |
out of your friends' mouths | C |
No the real words are more delicious than they | G |
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Human bodies are words myriads of words | C |
In the best poems re appears the body man's or woman's well shaped | H |
natural gay | G |
Every part able active receptive without shame or the need of | I |
shame | J |
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Air soil water fire these are words | C |
I myself am a word with them my qualities interpenetrate with | K |
theirs my name is nothing to them | L |
Though it were told in the three thousand languages what would air | M |
soil water fire know of my name | J |
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A healthy presence a friendly or commanding gesture are words | C |
sayings meanings | C |
The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women are | A |
sayings and meanings also | C |
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The workmanship of souls is by the inaudible words of the earth | N |
The great masters know the earth's words and use them more than the | O |
audible words | C |
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Amelioration is one of the earth's words | C |
The earth neither lags nor hastens | C |
It has all attributes growths effects latent in itself from the | O |
jump | P |
It is not half beautiful only defects and excrescences show just as | C |
much as perfections show | C |
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The earth does not withhold it is generous enough | Q |
The truths of the earth continually wait they are not so conceal'd | R |
either | D |
They are calm subtle untransmissible by print | S |
They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly | C |
Conveying a sentiment and invitation of the earth I utter and utter | D |
I speak not yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you | F |
To bear to better lacking these of what avail am I | T |
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Accouche Accouchez | C |
Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there | M |
Will you squat and stifle there | M |
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The earth does not argue | F |
Is not pathetic has no arrangements | C |
Does not scream haste persuade threaten promise | C |
Makes no discriminations has no conceivable failures | C |
Closes nothing refuses nothing shuts none out | U |
Of all the powers objects states it notifies shuts none out | U |
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The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself | V |
possesses still underneath | W |
Underneath the ostensible sounds the august chorus of heroes the | O |
wail of slaves | C |
Persuasions of lovers curses gasps of the dying laughter of young | X |
people accents of bargainers | C |
Underneath these possessing the words that never fail | Y |
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To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never | D |
fail | Y |
The true words do not fail for motion does not fail and reflection | Z |
does not fail | Y |
Also the day and night do not fail and the voyage we pursue does not | A2 |
fail | Y |
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Of the interminable sisters | C |
Of the ceaseless cotillions of sisters | C |
Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters the elder and younger | D |
sisters | C |
The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest | B2 |
With her ample back towards every beholder | D |
With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age | C2 |
Sits she whom I too love like the rest sits undisturb'd | D2 |
Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror while her | D |
eyes glance back from it | E2 |
Glance as she sits inviting none denying none | Z |
Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face | C |
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Seen at hand or seen at a distance | C |
Duly the twenty four appear in public every day | G |
Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companion | Z |
Looking from no countenances of their own but from the countenances | C |
of those who are with them | L |
From the countenances of children or women or the manly | C |
countenance | C |
From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things | C |
From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the | O |
sky | T |
From our countenances mine and yours faithfully returning them | L |
Every day in public appearing without fail but never twice with the | O |
same companions | C |
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Embracing man embracing all proceed the three hundred and sixty | C |
five resistlessly round the sun | Z |
Embracing all soothing supporting follow close three hundred and | F2 |
sixty five offsets of the first sure and necessary as they | G |
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Tumbling on steadily nothing dreading | G2 |
Sunshine storm cold heat forever withstanding passing carrying | G2 |
The Soul's realization and determination still inheriting | G2 |
The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing | G2 |
No balk retarding no anchor anchoring on no rock striking | G2 |
Swift glad content unbereav'd nothing losing | G2 |
Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account | H2 |
The divine ship sails the divine sea | C |
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Whoever you are motion and reflection are especially for you | F |
The divine ship sails the divine sea for you | F |
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Whoever you are you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and | F2 |
liquid | I2 |
You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky | T |
For none more than you are the present and the past | J2 |
For none more than you is immortality | C |
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Each man to himself and each woman to herself such is the word of | I |
the past and present and the word of immortality | C |
No one can acquire for another not one | Z |
Not one can grow for another not one | Z |
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The song is to the singer and comes back most to him | K2 |
The teaching is to the teacher and comes back most to him | K2 |
The murder is to the murderer and comes back most to him | K2 |
The theft is to the thief and comes back most to him | K2 |
The love is to the lover and comes back most to him | K2 |
The gift is to the giver and comes back most to him it cannot fail | Y |
The oration is to the orator the acting is to the actor and actress | C |
not to the audience | C |
And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own or the | O |
indication of his own | L2 |
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I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be | C |
complete | M2 |
I swear the earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who | F |
remains jagged and broken | Z |
I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of | I |
the earth | N |
I swear there can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate | N2 |
the theory of the earth | N |
No politics art religion behavior or what not is of account | H2 |
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth | N |
Unless it face the exactness vitality impartiality rectitude of | I |
the earth | N |
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I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which | O2 |
responds love | I |
It is that which contains itself which never invites and never | D |
refuses | C |
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I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words | C |
I swear I think all merges toward the presentation of the unspoken | Z |
meanings of the earth | N |
Toward him who si | C |
Walt Whitman
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