Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHIJJFKLMLGNK OMGPJGGL QGRGSRGGRMTQUGVGMAWG XMYQGAGAZA2B2XGM| GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling | A |
| Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard | B |
| Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows | C |
| Give me an arbor give me the trellis'd grape | D |
| Give me fresh corn and wheat give me serene moving animals teaching | A |
| content | E |
| Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the | F |
| Mississippi and I looking up at the stars | G |
| Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can | H |
| walk undisturb'd | I |
| Give me for marriage a sweet breath'd woman of whom I should never | J |
| tire | J |
| Give me a perfect child give me away aside from the noise of the | F |
| world a rural domestic life | K |
| Give me to warble spontaneous songs reliev'd recluse by myself for | L |
| my own ears only | M |
| Give me solitude give me Nature give me again O Nature your | L |
| primal sanities | G |
| These demanding to have them tired with ceaseless excitement | N |
| and rack'd by the war strife | K |
| These to procure incessantly asking rising in cries from my heart | O |
| While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city | M |
| Day upon day and year upon year O city walking your streets | G |
| Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up | P |
| Yet giving to make me glutted enrich'd of soul you give me forever | J |
| faces | G |
| O I see what I sought to escape confronting reversing my cries | G |
| I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for | L |
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| Keep your splendid silent sun | Q |
| Keep your woods O Nature and the quiet places by the woods | G |
| Keep your fields of clover and timothy and your corn fields and | R |
| orchards | G |
| Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth month bees hum | S |
| Give me faces and streets give me these phantoms incessant and | R |
| endless along the trottoirs | G |
| Give me interminable eyes give me women give me comrades and lovers | G |
| by the thousand | R |
| Let me see new ones every day let me hold new ones by the hand every | M |
| day | T |
| Give me such shows give me the streets of Manhattan | Q |
| Give me Broadway with the soldiers marching give me the sound of | U |
| the trumpets and drums | G |
| The soldiers in companies or regiments some starting away flush'd | V |
| and reckless | G |
| Some their time up returning with thinn'd ranks young yet very | M |
| old worn marching noticing nothing | A |
| Give me the shores and the wharves heavy fringed with the black | W |
| ships | G |
| O such for me O an intense life O full to repletion and varied | X |
| The life of the theatre bar room huge hotel for me | M |
| The saloon of the steamer the crowded excursion for me the torch | Y |
| light procession | Q |
| The dense brigade bound for the war with high piled military wagons | G |
| following | A |
| People endless streaming with strong voices passions pageants | G |
| Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs with the beating | A |
| drums as now | Z |
| The endless and noisy chorus the rustle and clank of muskets even | A2 |
| the sight of the wounded | B2 |
| Manhattan crowds with their turbulent musical chorus with varied | X |
| chorus and light of the sparkling eyes | G |
| Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me | M |
Walt Whitman
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