Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd ponderingA
On time space reality on such as these and abreast with themB
prudenceC
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After all the last explanation remains to be made about prudenceC
Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence thatD
suits immortalityE
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The Soul is of itselfF
All verges to it all has reference to what ensuesG
All that a person does says thinks is of consequenceC
Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a dayH
month any part of the direct life time or the hour of deathI
but the same affects him or her onward afterward through theJ
indirect life timeK
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The indirect is just as much as the directL
The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to theJ
body if not moreM
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Not one word or deed not venereal sore discoloration privacy ofN
the onanist putridity of gluttons or rum drinkers peculationO
cunning betrayal murder seduction prostitution but hasP
results beyond death as really as before deathI
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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anythingA
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No specification is necessary all that a male or female does thatD
is vigorous benevolent clean is so much profit to him orM
her in the unshakable order of the universe and through theJ
whole scope of it foreverQ
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Who has been wise receives interestR
Savage felon President judge farmer sailor mechanic literatR
young old it is the sameS
The interest will come round all will come roundR
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Singly wholly to affect now affected their time will foreverQ
affect all of the past and all of the present and all of theJ
futureQ
All the brave actions of war and peaceT
All help given to relatives strangers the poor old sorrowfulU
young children widows the sick and to shunn'd personsV
All furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slavesW
All self denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw othersX
fill the seats of the boatsY
All offering of substance or life for the good old cause or for aJ
friend's sake or opinion's sakeZ
All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighborsX
All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothersX
All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecordedR
All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments weE
inheritR
All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by nameS
date locationO
All that was ever manfully begun whether it succeeded or noO
All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of hisA2
mouth or the shaping of his great handsB2
All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globeC2
or on any of the wandering stars or on any of the fix'd starsD2
by those there as we are hereE2
All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you areF2
or by any oneO
These inure have inured shall inure to the identities from whichG2
they sprang or shall springA
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Did you guess anything lived only its momentR
The world does not so exist no parts palpable or impalpable soO
existR
No consummation exists without being from some long previousH2
consummation and that from some otherQ
Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer theJ
beginning than anyE
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Whatever satisfies Souls is trueI2
Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of SoulsJ2
Itself only finally satisfies the SoulK2
The Soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lessonO
but its ownO
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Now I give you an inklingA
Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with timeK
space realityE
That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its ownO
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What is prudence is indivisibleU
Declines to separate one part of life from every partR
Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous or the living fromL2
the deadR
Matches every thought or act by its correlativeN
Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonementR
Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost itR
has done exceedingly well for himself without doubtR
That he who never peril'd his life but retains it to old age inO
riches and ease has probably achiev'd nothing for himselfN
worth mentioningA
Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd toI2
prefer resultsM2
Who favors Body and Soul the sameS
Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the directR
Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries orM
avoids deathI

Walt Whitman



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