Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJDKLMNOPQDR STPUDVWD| OF the terrible doubt of appearances | A |
| Of the uncertainty after all that we may be deluded | B |
| That may be reliance and hope are but speculations after all | C |
| That may be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only | D |
| May be the things I perceive the animals plants men hills | E |
| shining and flowing waters | F |
| The skies of day and night colors densities forms May be these | G |
| are as doubtless they are only apparitions and the real | H |
| something has yet to be known | I |
| How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock | J |
| me | D |
| How often I think neither I know nor any man knows aught of them | K |
| May be seeming to me what they are as doubtless they indeed but | L |
| seem as from my present point of view And might prove as | M |
| of course they would naught of what they appear or naught | N |
| any how from entirely changed points of view | O |
| To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my | P |
| lovers my dear friends | Q |
| When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me | D |
| by the hand | R |
| When the subtle air the impalpable the sense that words and reason | S |
| hold not surround us and pervade us | T |
| Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom I am silent I | P |
| require nothing further | U |
| I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity | D |
| beyond the grave | V |
| But I walk or sit indifferent I am satisfied | W |
| He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me | D |
Walt Whitman
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