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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Flood Tide below me I see you face to face	B
Clouds of the west sun there half an hour high I see you also face	B
to face	B
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Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes how curious	C
you are to me	D
On the ferry boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross returning	E
home are more curious to me than you suppose	F
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more	G
to me and more in my meditations than you might suppose	F
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The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the	H
day	I
The simple compact well join'd scheme myself disintegrated every	D
one disintegrated yet part of the scheme	J
The similitudes of the past and those of the future	K
The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings on	L
the walk in the street and the passage over the river	K
The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away	I
The others that are to follow me the ties between me and them	M
The certainty of others the life love sight hearing of others	N
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Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to	O
shore	G
Others will watch the run of the flood tide	P
Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west and the	H
heights of Brooklyn to the south and east	Q
Others will see the islands large and small	R
Fifty years hence others will see them as they cross the sun half	S
an hour high	T
A hundred years hence or ever so many hundred years hence others	N
will see them	M
Will enjoy the sunset the pouring in of the flood tide the	H
falling back to the sea of the ebb tide	P
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It avails not time nor place distance avails not	U
I am with you you men and women of a generation or ever so many	D
generations hence	V
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky so I felt	W
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd I was one of a crowd	X
Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the	H
bright flow I was refresh'd	Y
Just as you stand and lean on the rail yet hurry with the swift	Z
current I stood yet was hurried	A2
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the	H
thick stemm'd pipes of steamboats I look'd	B2
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I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old	C2
Watched the Twelfth month sea gulls saw them high in the air	D2
floating with motionless wings oscillating their bodies	E2
Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left	F2
the rest in strong shadow	G2
Saw the slow wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the	H
south	H2
Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water	K
Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams	I2
Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my	T
head in the sunlit water	K
Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south westward	J2
Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet	K2
Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving	E
Saw their approach saw aboard those that were near me	D
Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops saw the ships at	L2
anchor	K
The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars	I2
The round masts the swinging motion of the hulls the slender	K
serpentine pennants	I2
The large and small steamers in motion the pilots in their	D2
pilothouses	I2
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The white wake left by the passage the quick tremulous whirl of the	H
wheels	I2
The flags of all nations the falling of them at sunset	M2
The scallop edged waves in the twilight the ladled cups the	H
frolic some crests and glistening	E
The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer the gray walls of the	H
granite storehouses by the docks	I2
On the river the shadowy group the big steam tug closely flank'd on	L
each side by the barges the hay boat the belated lighter	K
On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning	E
high and glaringly into the night	N2
Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow	G2
light over the tops of houses and down into the clefts of	O2
streets	I2
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	-
These and all else were to me the same as they are to you	O
I loved well those cities loved well the stately and rapid river	K
The men and women I saw were all near to me	D
Others the same others who look back on me because I look'd forward	J2
to them	M
The time will come though I stop here to day and to night	N2
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	-
What is it then between us	I2
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us	I2
	-
Whatever it is it avails not distance avails not and place avails	I2
not	U
I too lived Brooklyn of ample hills was mine	P2
I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island and bathed in the	H
waters around it	K2
I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me	D
In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me	D
In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon	L
me	D
I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution	Q2
I too had receiv'd identity by my body	D
That I was I knew was of my body and what I should be I knew I	T
should be of my body	D
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	-
It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall	R
The dark threw its patches down upon me also	I2
	-
The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious	I2
My great thoughts as I supposed them were they not in reality	D
meagre	K
Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil	R2
I am he who knew what it was to be evil	R2
I too knitted the old knot of contrariety	D
Blabb'd blush'd resented lied stole grudg'd	D
Had guile anger lust hot wishes I dared not speak	S2
Was wayward vain greedy shallow sly cowardly malignant	D
The wolf the snake the hog not wanting in me	D
The cheating look the frivolous word the adulterous wish not	D
wanting	E
	-
Refusals hates postponements meanness laziness none of these	I2
wanting	E
Was one with the rest the days and haps of the rest	D
Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as	I2
they saw me approaching or passing	E
Felt their arms on my neck as I stood or the negligent leaning of	O2
their flesh against me as I sat	D
Saw many I loved in the street or ferry boat or public assembly yet	D
never told them a word	D
Lived the same life with the rest the same old laughing gnawing	E
sleeping	E
Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress	I2
The same old role the role that is what we make it as great as we	D
like	T2
Or as small as we like or both great and small	R
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	-
Closer yet I approach you	O
What thought you have of me now I had as much of you I laid in my	T
stores in advance	I2
I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born	U2
	-
Who was to know what should come home to me	D
Who knows but I am enjoying this	I2
Who knows for all the distance but I am as good as looking at you	O
now for all you cannot see me	D
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	-
Ah what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than	V2
mast hemm'd Manhattan	Q2
River and sunset and scallop edg'd waves of flood tide	D
The sea gulls oscillating their bodies the hay boat in the	H
twilight and the belated lighter	K
	-
What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand and with	W2
voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as	I2
approach	X2
What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that	D
looks in my face	I2
Which fuses me into you now and pours my meaning into you	O
	-
We understand then do we not	D
What I promis'd without mentioning it have you not accepted	D
What the study could not teach what the preaching could not	D
accomplish is accomplish'd is it not	D
	-
	-
Flow on river flow with the flood tide and ebb with the ebb tide	D
Frolic on crested and scallop edg'd waves	I2
Gorgeous clouds of the sunset drench with your splendor me or the	H
men and women generations after me	D
Cross from shore to shore countless crowds of passengers	I2
Stand up tall masts of Mannahatta stand up beautiful hills of	O2
Brooklyn	Q2
Throb baffled and curious brain throw out questions and answers	I2
Suspend here and everywhere eternal float of solution	Q2
Gaze loving and thirsting eyes in the house or street or public	Y2
assembly	D
Sound out voices of young men loudly and musically call me by my	T
nighest name	Z2
Live old life play the part that looks back on the actor or	K
actress	I2
Play the old role the role that is great or small according as one	Q2
makes it	D
Consider you who peruse me whether I may not in unknown ways be	D
looking upon you	O
Be firm rail over the river to support those who lean idly yet	D
haste with the hasting current	D
Fly on sea birds fly sideways or wheel in large circles high in	A3
the air	K
Receive the summer sky you water and faithfully hold it till all	R
downcast eyes have time to take it from you	O
Diverge fine spokes of light from the shape of my head or any	D
one's head in the sunlit water	K
Come on ships from the lower bay pass up or down white sail'd	D
schooners sloops lighters	I2
Flaunt away flags of all nations be duly lower'd at sunset	D
Burn high your fires foundry chimneys cast black shadows at	D
nightfall cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses	I2
	-
Appearances now or henceforth indicate what you are	K
You necessary film continue to envelop the soul	B3
About my body for me and your body for you be hung our divinest	D
aromas	I2
Thrive cities bring your freight bring your shows ample and	D
sufficient rivers	I2
Expand being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual	R2
Keep your places objects than which none else is more lasting	E
	-
You have waited you always wait you dumb beautiful ministers	I2
We receive you with free sense at last and are insatiate	D
henceforward	D
Not you any more shall be able to foil us or withhold yourselves	I2
from us	I2
We use you and do not cast you aside we plant you permanently	D
within us	I2
We fathom you not we love you there is perfection in you also	I2
You furnish your parts toward eternity	D
Great or small you furnish your parts toward the soul	B3