Night On The Prairies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FG HHI JKGG LHMNNOPQ RS| NIGHT on the prairies | A |
| The supper is over the fire on the ground burns low | B |
| The wearied emigrants sleep wrapt in their blankets | C |
| I walk by myself I stand and look at the stars which I think now I | D |
| never realized before | E |
| - | |
| Now I absorb immortality and peace | F |
| I admire death and test propositions | G |
| - | |
| How plenteous How spiritual How resum | H |
| The same Old Man and Soul the same old aspirations and the same | H |
| content | I |
| - | |
| I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not day | J |
| exhibited | K |
| I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless | G |
| around me myriads of other globes | G |
| - | |
| Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will | L |
| measure myself by them | H |
| And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along | M |
| as those of the earth | N |
| Or waiting to arrive or pass'd on farther than those of the earth | N |
| I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life | O |
| Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine or waiting to | P |
| arrive | Q |
| - | |
| O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me as the day cannot | R |
| I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death | S |
Walt Whitman
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