Carol Of Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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EARTH round rolling compact suns moons animals all these areA
words to be saidB
Watery vegetable sauroid advances beings premonitions lispingsC
of the futureD
Behold these are vast words to be saidB
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Were you thinking that those were the words those upright linesC
those curves angles dotsC
No those are not the words the substantial words are in the groundE
and seaC
They are in the air they are in youF
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Were you thinking that those were the words those delicious soundsC
out of your friends' mouthsC
No the real words are more delicious than theyG
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Human bodies are words myriads of wordsC
In the best poems re appears the body man's or woman's well shapedH
natural gayG
Every part able active receptive without shame or the need ofI
shameJ
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Air soil water fire these are wordsC
I myself am a word with them my qualities interpenetrate withK
theirs my name is nothing to themL
Though it were told in the three thousand languages what would airM
soil water fire know of my nameJ
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A healthy presence a friendly or commanding gesture are wordsC
sayings meaningsC
The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women areA
sayings and meanings alsoC
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The workmanship of souls is by the inaudible words of the earthN
The great masters know the earth's words and use them more than theO
audible wordsC
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Amelioration is one of the earth's wordsC
The earth neither lags nor hastensC
It has all attributes growths effects latent in itself from theO
jumpP
It is not half beautiful only defects and excrescences show just asC
much as perfections showC
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The earth does not withhold it is generous enoughQ
The truths of the earth continually wait they are not so conceal'dR
eitherD
They are calm subtle untransmissible by printS
They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willinglyC
Conveying a sentiment and invitation of the earth I utter and utterD
I speak not yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to youF
To bear to better lacking these of what avail am IT
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Accouche AccouchezC
Will you rot your own fruit in yourself thereM
Will you squat and stifle thereM
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The earth does not argueF
Is not pathetic has no arrangementsC
Does not scream haste persuade threaten promiseC
Makes no discriminations has no conceivable failuresC
Closes nothing refuses nothing shuts none outU
Of all the powers objects states it notifies shuts none outU
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The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itselfV
possesses still underneathW
Underneath the ostensible sounds the august chorus of heroes theO
wail of slavesC
Persuasions of lovers curses gasps of the dying laughter of youngX
people accents of bargainersC
Underneath these possessing the words that never failY
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To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother neverD
failY
The true words do not fail for motion does not fail and reflectionZ
does not failY
Also the day and night do not fail and the voyage we pursue does notA2
failY
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Of the interminable sistersC
Of the ceaseless cotillions of sistersC
Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters the elder and youngerD
sistersC
The beautiful sister we know dances on with the restB2
With her ample back towards every beholderD
With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of ageC2
Sits she whom I too love like the rest sits undisturb'dD2
Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror while herD
eyes glance back from itE2
Glance as she sits inviting none denying noneZ
Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own faceC
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Seen at hand or seen at a distanceC
Duly the twenty four appear in public every dayG
Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companionZ
Looking from no countenances of their own but from the countenancesC
of those who are with themL
From the countenances of children or women or the manlyC
countenanceC
From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate thingsC
From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of theO
skyT
From our countenances mine and yours faithfully returning themL
Every day in public appearing without fail but never twice with theO
same companionsC
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Embracing man embracing all proceed the three hundred and sixtyC
five resistlessly round the sunZ
Embracing all soothing supporting follow close three hundred andF2
sixty five offsets of the first sure and necessary as theyG
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Tumbling on steadily nothing dreadingG2
Sunshine storm cold heat forever withstanding passing carryingG2
The Soul's realization and determination still inheritingG2
The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividingG2
No balk retarding no anchor anchoring on no rock strikingG2
Swift glad content unbereav'd nothing losingG2
Of all able and ready at any time to give strict accountH2
The divine ship sails the divine seaC
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Whoever you are motion and reflection are especially for youF
The divine ship sails the divine sea for youF
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Whoever you are you are he or she for whom the earth is solid andF2
liquidI2
You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the skyT
For none more than you are the present and the pastJ2
For none more than you is immortalityC
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Each man to himself and each woman to herself such is the word ofI
the past and present and the word of immortalityC
No one can acquire for another not oneZ
Not one can grow for another not oneZ
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The song is to the singer and comes back most to himK2
The teaching is to the teacher and comes back most to himK2
The murder is to the murderer and comes back most to himK2
The theft is to the thief and comes back most to himK2
The love is to the lover and comes back most to himK2
The gift is to the giver and comes back most to him it cannot failY
The oration is to the orator the acting is to the actor and actressC
not to the audienceC
And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own or theO
indication of his ownL2
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I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall beC
completeM2
I swear the earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her whoF
remains jagged and brokenZ
I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those ofI
the earthN
I swear there can be no theory of any account unless it corroborateN2
the theory of the earthN
No politics art religion behavior or what not is of accountH2
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earthN
Unless it face the exactness vitality impartiality rectitude ofI
the earthN
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I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that whichO2
responds loveI
It is that which contains itself which never invites and neverD
refusesC
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I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible wordsC
I swear I think all merges toward the presentation of the unspokenZ
meanings of the earthN
Toward him who siC

Walt Whitman



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