I Sit And Look Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHIJKLMNOPNQI sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world and upon all | A |
oppression and shame | B |
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with | C |
themselves remorseful after deeds done | D |
I see in low life the mother misused by her children dying | E |
neglected gaunt desperate | F |
I see the wife misused by her husband I see the treacherous seducer | G |
of young women | D |
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be | H |
hid I see these sights on the earth | I |
I see the workings of battle pestilence tyranny I see martyrs and | J |
prisoners | K |
I observe a famine at sea I observe the sailors casting lots who | L |
shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest | M |
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon | N |
laborers the poor and upon negroes and the like | O |
All these All the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out | P |
upon | N |
See hear and am silent | Q |
Walt Whitman
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