One Hour To Madness And Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ECFG HIFJE KLMLCNOP CQCCCHRCSA| ONE hour to madness and joy | A |
| O furious O confine me not | B |
| What is this that frees me so in storms | C |
| What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean | D |
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| O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man | E |
| O savage and tender achings | C |
| I bequeath them to you my children | F |
| I tell them to you for reasons O bridegroom and bride | G |
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| O to be yielded to you whoever you are and you to be yielded to me | H |
| in defiance of the world | I |
| O to return to Paradise O bashful and feminine | F |
| O to draw you to me to plant on you for the first time the lips of a | J |
| determin'd man | E |
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| O the puzzle the thrice tied knot the deep and dark pool O all | K |
| untied and illumin'd | L |
| O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last | M |
| O to be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions I from mine and | L |
| you from yours | C |
| O to find a new unthought of nonchalance with the best of nature | N |
| O to have the gag remov'd from one's mouth | O |
| O to have the feeling to day or any day I am sufficient as I am | P |
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| O something unprov'd something in a trance | C |
| O madness amorous O trembling | Q |
| O to escape utterly from others' anchors and holds | C |
| To drive free to love free to dash reckless and dangerous | C |
| To court destruction with taunts with invitations | C |
| To ascend to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me | H |
| To rise thither with my inebriate Soul | R |
| To be lost if it must be so | C |
| To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom | S |
| With one brief hour of madness and joy | A |
Walt Whitman
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