Longings For Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAF GHCIJKCLHMHCHNHOEHHK GCHPQCHHRCHHSTUHVWHN| ick mettle rich blood impulse and love Good and evil O all dear to me | A |
| O dear to me my birth things All moving things and the trees where I was | B |
| born the | C |
| grains | D |
| plants rivers | E |
| Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow distant over flats of silvery | A |
| sands | F |
| or | - |
| through swamps | G |
| Dear to me the Roanoke the Savannah the Altamahaw the Pedee the Tombigbee the Santee | H |
| the | C |
| Coosa and the Sabine | I |
| O pensive far away wandering I return with my Soul to haunt their banks again | J |
| Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes I float on the Okeechobee I cross | K |
| the | C |
| hummock land or through pleasant openings or dense forests | L |
| I see the parrots in the woods I see the papaw tree and the blossoming titi | H |
| Again sailing in my coaster on deck I coast off Georgia I coast up the Carolinas | M |
| I see where the live oak is growing I see where the yellow pine the scented | H |
| bay tree the | C |
| lemon and orange the cypress the graceful palmetto | H |
| I pass rude sea headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet and dart my vision | N |
| inland | H |
| O the cotton plant the growing fields of rice sugar hemp | O |
| The cactus guarded with thorns the laurel tree with large white flowers | E |
| The range afar the richness and barrenness the old woods charged with mistletoe | H |
| and | H |
| trailing moss | K |
| The piney odor and the gloom the awful natural stillness Here in these dense swamps | G |
| the | C |
| freebooter carries his gun and the fugitive slave has his conceal'd hut | H |
| O the strange fascination of these half known half impassable swamps infested by | P |
| reptiles | Q |
| resounding with the bellow of the alligator the sad noises of the night owl and the | C |
| wild cat | H |
| and | H |
| the whirr of the rattlesnake | R |
| The mocking bird the American mimic singing all the forenoon singing through the | C |
| moon lit | H |
| night | H |
| The humming bird the wild turkey the raccoon the opossum | S |
| A Tennessee corn field the tall graceful long leav'd corn slender | T |
| flapping | U |
| bright | H |
| green with tassels with beautiful ears each well sheath'd in its husk | V |
| An Arkansas prairie a sleeping lake or still bayou | W |
| O my heart O tender and fierce pangs I can stand them not I will depart | H |
| O to be a Virginian where I grew up O to be a Carolinian | N |
| O longings irrepressible O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more | - |
Walt Whitman
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