Eidolons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFC GHIC HGJC KLMC NGCL OPQL RCSC ATGC UCCC CCVG GWXL YCCC CCZC BCOC A2CCC B2C2A2C D2E2F2C G2CH2C NCI2L CI2GLI met a seer | A |
Passing the hues and objects of the world | B |
The fields of art and learning pleasure sense | C |
To glean eidolons | C |
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Put in thy chants said he | D |
No more the puzzling hour nor day nor segments parts put in | E |
Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance song of all | F |
That of eidolons | C |
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Ever the dim beginning | G |
Ever the growth the rounding of the circle | H |
Ever the summit and the merge at last to surely start again | I |
Eidolons eidolons | C |
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Ever the mutable | H |
Ever materials changing crumbling re cohering | G |
Ever the ateliers the factories divine | J |
Issuing eidolons | C |
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Lo I or you | K |
Or woman man or state known or unknown | L |
We seeming solid wealth strength beauty build | M |
But really build eidolons | C |
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The ostent evanescent | N |
The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long | G |
Or warrior's martyr's hero's toils | C |
To fashion his eidolon | L |
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Of every human life | O |
The units gather'd posted not a thought emotion deed left out | P |
The whole or large or small summ'd added up | Q |
In its eidolon | L |
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The old old urge | R |
Based on the ancient pinnacles lo newer higher pinnacles | C |
From science and the modern still impell'd | S |
The old old urge eidolons | C |
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The present now and here | A |
America's busy teeming intricate whirl | T |
Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing | G |
To day's eidolons | C |
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These with the past | U |
Of vanish'd lands of all the reigns of kings across the sea | C |
Old conquerors old campaigns old sailors' voyages | C |
Joining eidolons | C |
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Densities growth facades | C |
Strata of mountains soils rocks giant trees | C |
Far born far dying living long to leave | V |
Eidolons everlasting | G |
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Exalte rapt ecstatic | G |
The visible but their womb of birth | W |
Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape | X |
The mighty earth eidolon | L |
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All space all time | Y |
The stars the terrible perturbations of the suns | C |
Swelling collapsing ending serving their longer shorter use | C |
Fill'd with eidolons only | C |
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The noiseless myriads | C |
The infinite oceans where the rivers empty | C |
The separate countless free identities like eyesight | Z |
The true realities eidolons | C |
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Not this the world | B |
Nor these the universes they the universes | C |
Purport and end ever the permanent life of life | O |
Eidolons eidolons | C |
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Beyond thy lectures learn'd professor | A2 |
Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen beyond all mathematics | C |
Beyond the doctor's surgery anatomy beyond the chemist with his chemistry | C |
The entities of entities eidolons | C |
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Unfix'd yet fix'd | B2 |
Ever shall be ever have been and are | C2 |
Sweeping the present to the infinite future | A2 |
Eidolons eidolons eidolons | C |
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The prophet and the bard | D2 |
Shall yet maintain themselves in higher stages yet | E2 |
Shall mediate to the Modern to Democracy interpret yet to them | F2 |
God and eidolons | C |
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And thee my soul | G2 |
Joys ceaseless exercises exaltations | C |
Thy yearning amply fed at last prepared to meet | H2 |
Thy mates eidolons | C |
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Thy body permanent | N |
The body lurking there within thy body | C |
The only purport of the form thou art the real I myself | I2 |
An image an eidolon | L |
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Thy very songs not in thy songs | C |
No special strains to sing none for itself | I2 |
But from the whole resulting rising at last and floating | G |
A round full orb'd eidolon | L |
Walt Whitman
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