Miracles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIFJCKLMNOPQE RSTCAUBV AAEWWCXB AYXL| WHY who makes much of a miracle | A |
| As to me I know of nothing else but miracles | B |
| Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan | C |
| Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky | D |
| Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the | E |
| water | F |
| Or stand under trees in the woods | G |
| Or talk by day with any one I love or sleep in the bed at night with | H |
| any one I love | I |
| Or sit at table at dinner with my mother | F |
| Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car | J |
| Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon | C |
| Or animals feeding in the fields | K |
| Or birds or the wonderfulness of insects in the air | L |
| Or the wonderfulness of the sun down or of stars shining so quiet | M |
| and bright | N |
| Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring | O |
| Or whether I go among those I like best and that like me best | P |
| mechanics boatmen farmers | Q |
| Or among the savans or to the soiree or to the opera | E |
| Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery | R |
| Or behold children at their sports | S |
| Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man or the perfect old | T |
| woman | C |
| Or the sick in hospitals or the dead carried to burial | A |
| Or my own eyes and figure in the glass | U |
| These with the rest one and all are to me miracles | B |
| The whole referring yet each distinct and in its place | V |
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| To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle | A |
| Every cubic inch of space is a miracle | A |
| Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the | E |
| same | W |
| Every foot of the interior swarms with the same | W |
| Every spear of grass the frames limbs organs of men and women | C |
| and all that concerns them | X |
| All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles | B |
| - | |
| To me the sea is a continual miracle | A |
| The fishes that swim the rocks the motion of the waves the ships | Y |
| with men in them | X |
| What stranger miracles are there | L |
Walt Whitman
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