On The Beach At Night, Alone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHIIIIJCK| On the beach at night alone | A |
| As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song | B |
| As I watch the bright stars shining I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future | C |
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| A vast similitude interlocks all | D |
| All spheres grown ungrown small large suns moons planets comets asteroids | E |
| All the substances of the same and all that is spiritual upon the same | F |
| All distances of place however wide | G |
| All distances of time all inanimate forms | H |
| All Souls all living bodies though they be ever so different or in different worlds | I |
| All gaseous watery vegetable mineral processes the fishes the brutes | I |
| All men and women me also | I |
| All nations colors barbarisms civilizations languages | I |
| All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe or any globe | J |
| All lives and deaths all of the past present future | C |
| This vast similitude spans them and always has spann'd and shall forever span them and compactly hold them and enclose them | K |
Walt Whitman
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