City Of Ships Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCDEFGFHIJKLF| City of ships | A |
| O the black ships O the fierce ships | A |
| O the beautiful sharp bow'd steam ships and sail ships | A |
| City of the world for all races are here | B |
| All the lands of the earth make contributions here | B |
| City of the sea city of hurried and glittering tides | C |
| City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede whirling in and out with eddies and foam | D |
| City of wharves and stores city of tall fa ades of marble and iron | E |
| Proud and passionate city mettlesome mad extravagant city | F |
| Spring up O city not for peace alone but be indeed yourself warlike | G |
| Fear not submit to no models but your own O city | F |
| Behold me incarnate me as I have incarnated you | H |
| I have rejected nothing you offer'd me whom you adopted I have adopted | I |
| Good or bad I never question you I love all I do not condemn anything | J |
| I chant and celebrate all that is yours yet peace no more | K |
| In peace I chanted peace but now the drum of war is mine | L |
| War red war is my song through your streets O city | F |
Walt Whitman
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