Great Are The Myths Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEF GHBI JKJK KDGL MNOP QRST BGUVW VXYD HZA2MA2 FF XB2XC2D2 E2SE2FF2LF2 G2H2 LI2SVJ2K2L2 M2N2O2P2Q2R2 S2T2U2V2 DW2D X2| GREAT are the myths I too delight in them | A |
| Great are Adam and Eve I too look back and accept them | A |
| Great the risen and fallen nations and their poets women sages | B |
| inventors rulers warriors and priests | C |
| Great is Liberty great is Equality I am their follower | D |
| Helmsmen of nations choose your craft where you sail I sail | E |
| I weather it out with you or sink with you | F |
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| Great is Youth equally great is Old Age great are the Day and | G |
| Night | H |
| Great is Wealth great is Poverty great is Expression great is | B |
| Silence | I |
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| Youth large lusty loving Youth full of grace force | J |
| fascination | K |
| Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace force | J |
| fascination | K |
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| Day full blown and splendid Day of the immense sun action | K |
| ambition laughter | D |
| The Night follows close with millions of suns and sleep and | G |
| restoring darkness | L |
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| Wealth with the flush hand fine clothes hospitality | M |
| But then the Soul's wealth which is candor knowledge pride | N |
| enfolding love | O |
| Who goes for men and women showing Poverty richer than wealth | P |
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| Expression of speech in what is written or said forget not that | Q |
| Silence is also expressive | R |
| That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the | S |
| coldest may be without words | T |
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| Great is the Earth and the way it became what it is | B |
| Do you imagine it has stopt at this the increase abandon'd | G |
| Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from | U |
| the times when it lay in covering waters and gases before man | V |
| had appear'd | W |
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| Great is the quality of Truth in man | V |
| The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes | X |
| It is inevitably in the man he and it are in love and never leave | Y |
| each other | D |
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| The truth in man is no dictum it is vital as eyesight | H |
| If there be any Soul there is truth if there be man or woman there | Z |
| is truth if there be physical or moral there is truth | A2 |
| If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth if there be | M |
| things at all upon the earth there is truth | A2 |
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| O truth of the earth I am determin'd to press my way toward you | F |
| Sound your voice I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you | F |
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| Great is Language it is the mightiest of the sciences | X |
| It is the fulness color form diversity of the earth and of men | B2 |
| and women and of all qualities and processes | X |
| It is greater than wealth it is greater than buildings ships | C2 |
| religions paintings music | D2 |
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| Great is the English speech what speech is so great as the English | E2 |
| Great is the English brood what brood has so vast a destiny as the | S |
| English | E2 |
| It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new | F |
| rule | F2 |
| The new rule shall rule as the Soul rules and as the love justice | L |
| equality in the Soul rule | F2 |
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| Great is Law great are the few old land marks of the law | G2 |
| They are the same in all times and shall not be disturb'd | H2 |
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| Great is Justice | L |
| Justice is not settled by legislators and laws it is in the Soul | I2 |
| It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love pride the | S |
| attraction of gravity can | V |
| It is immutable it does not depend on majorities majorities or what | J2 |
| not come at last before the same passionless and exact | K2 |
| tribunal | L2 |
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| For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges is it | M2 |
| in their Souls | N2 |
| It is well assorted they have not studied for nothing the great | O2 |
| includes the less | P2 |
| They rule on the highest grounds they oversee all eras states | Q2 |
| administrations | R2 |
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| The perfect judge fears nothing he could go front to front before | S2 |
| God | T2 |
| Before the perfect judge all shall stand back life and death shall | U2 |
| stand back heaven and hell shall stand back | V2 |
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| Great is Life real and mystical wherever and whoever | D |
| Great is Death sure as life holds all parts together Death holds | W2 |
| all parts together | D |
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| Has Life much purport Ah Death has the greatest purport | X2 |
Walt Whitman
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