Not Heaving From My Ribb'd Breast Only Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHAIJKLMNGOEP QR| NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only | A |
| Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself | B |
| Not in those long drawn ill supprest sighs | C |
| Not in many an oath and promise broken | D |
| Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition | D |
| Not in the subtle nourishment of the air | E |
| Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists | F |
| Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day | G |
| cease | H |
| Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only | A |
| Not in cries laughter defiances thrown from me when alone far in | I |
| the wilds | J |
| Not in husky pantings through clench'd teeth | K |
| Not in sounded and resounded words chattering words echoes dead | L |
| words | M |
| Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep | N |
| Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day | G |
| Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you | O |
| continually Not there | E |
| Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness O pulse of my life | P |
| Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these | Q |
| songs | R |
Walt Whitman
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