Myself And Mine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFC GGHI JGCKGE LMNM GGO GPE GGE GGQAG RSTUEE BVBAG WG| MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever | A |
| To stand the cold or heat to take good aim with a gun to sail a | B |
| boat to manage horses to beget superb children | C |
| To speak readily and clearly to feel at home among common people | D |
| And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea | E |
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| Not for an embroiderer | A |
| There will always be plenty of embroiderers I welcome them also | F |
| But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women | C |
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| Not to chisel ornaments | G |
| But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous | G |
| Supreme Gods that The States may realize them walking and | H |
| talking | I |
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| Let me have my own way | J |
| Let others promulge the laws I will make no account of the laws | G |
| Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace I hold up agitation | C |
| and conflict | K |
| I praise no eminent man I rebuke to his face the one that was | G |
| thought most worthy | E |
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| Who are you you mean devil And what are you secretly guilty of | L |
| all your life | M |
| Will you turn aside all your life Will you grub and chatter all your | N |
| life | M |
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| And who are you blabbing by rote years pages languages | G |
| reminiscences | G |
| Unwitting to day that you do not know how to speak a single word | O |
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| Let others finish specimens I never finish specimens | G |
| I shower them by exhaustless laws as Nature does fresh and modern | P |
| continually | E |
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| I give nothing as duties | G |
| What others give as duties I give as living impulses | G |
| Shall I give the heart's action as a duty | E |
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| Let others dispose of questions I dispose of nothing I arouse | G |
| unanswerable questions | G |
| Who are they I see and touch and what about them | Q |
| What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender | A |
| directions and indirections | G |
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| I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends but | R |
| listen to my enemies as I myself do | S |
| I charge you too forever reject those who would expound me for I | T |
| cannot expound myself | U |
| I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me | E |
| I charge you to leave all free as I have left all free | E |
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| After me vista | B |
| O I see life is not short but immeasurably long | V |
| I henceforth tread the world chaste temperate an early riser a | B |
| steady grower | A |
| Every hour the semen of centuries and still of centuries | G |
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| I will follow up these continual lessons of the air water earth | W |
| I perceive I have no time to lose | G |
Walt Whitman
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