Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CDE FGCHIJK LJM NOPI A DMJQ RRSR QJQTUVWXYJZXXRERSOOA 2B2C2D2E2F2OG2A RORH2QJE I2J2K2OO AKEO URL2RNRRRONAI2M2SRMIMANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd pondering | A |
On time space reality on such as these and abreast with them | B |
prudence | C |
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After all the last explanation remains to be made about prudence | C |
Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that | D |
suits immortality | E |
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The Soul is of itself | F |
All verges to it all has reference to what ensues | G |
All that a person does says thinks is of consequence | C |
Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day | H |
month any part of the direct life time or the hour of death | I |
but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the | J |
indirect life time | K |
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The indirect is just as much as the direct | L |
The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the | J |
body if not more | M |
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Not one word or deed not venereal sore discoloration privacy of | N |
the onanist putridity of gluttons or rum drinkers peculation | O |
cunning betrayal murder seduction prostitution but has | P |
results beyond death as really as before death | I |
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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything | A |
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No specification is necessary all that a male or female does that | D |
is vigorous benevolent clean is so much profit to him or | M |
her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the | J |
whole scope of it forever | Q |
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Who has been wise receives interest | R |
Savage felon President judge farmer sailor mechanic literat | R |
young old it is the same | S |
The interest will come round all will come round | R |
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Singly wholly to affect now affected their time will forever | Q |
affect all of the past and all of the present and all of the | J |
future | Q |
All the brave actions of war and peace | T |
All help given to relatives strangers the poor old sorrowful | U |
young children widows the sick and to shunn'd persons | V |
All furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves | W |
All self denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others | X |
fill the seats of the boats | Y |
All offering of substance or life for the good old cause or for a | J |
friend's sake or opinion's sake | Z |
All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors | X |
All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers | X |
All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded | R |
All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we | E |
inherit | R |
All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name | S |
date location | O |
All that was ever manfully begun whether it succeeded or no | O |
All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his | A2 |
mouth or the shaping of his great hands | B2 |
All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe | C2 |
or on any of the wandering stars or on any of the fix'd stars | D2 |
by those there as we are here | E2 |
All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are | F2 |
or by any one | O |
These inure have inured shall inure to the identities from which | G2 |
they sprang or shall spring | A |
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Did you guess anything lived only its moment | R |
The world does not so exist no parts palpable or impalpable so | O |
exist | R |
No consummation exists without being from some long previous | H2 |
consummation and that from some other | Q |
Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the | J |
beginning than any | E |
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Whatever satisfies Souls is true | I2 |
Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of Souls | J2 |
Itself only finally satisfies the Soul | K2 |
The Soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson | O |
but its own | O |
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Now I give you an inkling | A |
Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time | K |
space reality | E |
That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own | O |
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What is prudence is indivisible | U |
Declines to separate one part of life from every part | R |
Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous or the living from | L2 |
the dead | R |
Matches every thought or act by its correlative | N |
Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement | R |
Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it | R |
has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt | R |
That he who never peril'd his life but retains it to old age in | O |
riches and ease has probably achiev'd nothing for himself | N |
worth mentioning | A |
Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to | I2 |
prefer results | M2 |
Who favors Body and Soul the same | S |
Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct | R |
Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or | M |
avoids death | I |
Walt Whitman
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