Hours Continuing Long Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFCGAHHIJKLAMAN OPAPA| HOURS continuing long sore and heavy hearted | A |
| Hours of the dusk when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented | A |
| spot seating myself leaning my face in my hands | B |
| Hours sleepless deep in the night when I go forth speeding swiftly | C |
| the country roads or through the city streets or pacing miles | D |
| and miles stifling plaintive cries | E |
| Hours discouraged distracted for the one I cannot content myself | F |
| without soon I saw him content himself without me | C |
| Hours when I am forgotten O weeks and months are passing but I | G |
| believe I am never to forget | A |
| Sullen and suffering hours I am ashamed but it is useless I am | H |
| what I am | H |
| Hours of my torment I wonder if other men ever have the like out of | I |
| the like feelings | J |
| Is there even one other like me distracted his friend his lover | K |
| lost to him | L |
| Is he too as I am now Does he still rise in the morning dejected | A |
| thinking who is lost to him and at night awaking think who | M |
| is lost | A |
| Does he too harbor his friendship silent and endless harbor his | N |
| anguish and passion | O |
| Does some stray reminder or the casual mention of a name bring the | P |
| fit back upon him taciturn and deprest | A |
| Does he see himself reflected in me In these hours does he see the | P |
| face of his hours reflected | A |
Walt Whitman
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