From Paumanok Starting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKLFM| FROM Paumanock starting I fly like a bird | A |
| Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all | B |
| To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs | C |
| To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself to Michigan then | D |
| To Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota to sing their songs they are | E |
| inimitable | F |
| Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs to Missouri and Kansas and | G |
| Arkansas to sing theirs | H |
| To Tennessee and Kentucky to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing | I |
| theirs | H |
| To Texas and so along up toward California to roam accepted | J |
| everywhere | K |
| To sing first to the tap of the war drum if need be | L |
| The idea of all of the western world one and inseparable | F |
| And then the song of each member of These States | M |
Walt Whitman
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