Passage To India Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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SINGING my daysA
Singing the great achievements of the presentB
Singing the strong light works of engineersC
Our modern wonders the antique ponderous Seven outviedB
In the Old World the east the Suez canalD
The New by its mighty railroad spann'dB
The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wiresE
I sound to commence the cry with thee O soulF
The Past the Past the PastB
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The Past the dark unfathom'd retrospectB
The teeming gulf the sleepers and the shadowsG
The past the infinite greatness of the pastB
For what is the present after all but a growth out of the pastB
As a projectile form'd impell'd passing a certain line stillH
keeps onI
So the present utterly form'd impell'd by the pastB
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Passage O soul to IndiaB
Eclaircise the myths Asiatic the primitive fablesJ
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Not you alone proud truths of the worldB
Nor you alone ye facts of modern scienceK
But myths and fables of eld Asia's Africa's fablesJ
The far darting beams of the spirit the unloos'd dreamsL
The deep diving bibles and legendsM
The daring plots of the poets the elder religionsN
O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sunO
O you fables spurning the known eluding the hold of the knownP
mounting to heavenO
You lofty and dazzling towers pinnacled red as roses burnish'dB
with goldB
Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreamsL
You too I welcome and fully the same as the restB
You too with joy I singQ
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Passage to IndiaB
Lo soul seest thou not God's purpose from the firstB
The earth to be spann'd connected by net workR
The people to become brothers and sistersE
The races neighbors to marry and be given in marriageS
The oceans to be cross'd the distant brought nearT
The lands to be welded togetherU
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A worship new I singQ
You captains voyagers explorers yoursV
You engineers you architects machinists yourW
You not for trade or transportation onlyX
But in God's name and for thy sake O soulF
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Passage to IndiaB
Lo soul for thee of tableaus twainY
I see in one the Suez canal initiated open'dB
I see the procession of steamships the Empress Eugenie's leading theB
vanZ
I mark from on deck the strange landscape the pure sky the levelA2
sand in the distanceK
I pass swiftly the picturesque groups the workmen gather'dB
The gigantic dredging machinesB2
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In one again different yet thine all thine O soul the sameC2
I see over my own continent the Pacific Railroad surmounting everyX
barrierU
I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carryingQ
freight and passengersE
I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring and the shrill steamD2
whistleA2
I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in theB
worldB
I cross the Laramie plains I note the rocks in grotesque shapes theB
buttesE
I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions the barren colorlessE
sage desertsE
I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the greatB
mountains I see the Wind River and the Wahsatch mountainsE
I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest I pass theB
Promontory I ascend the NevadasE
I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its baseE
I see the Humboldt range I thread the valley and cross the riverU
I see the clear waters of Lake Tahoe I see forests of majesticE2
pinesE
Or crossing the great desert the alkaline plains I beholdB
enchanting mirages of waters and meadowsE
Marking through these and after all in duplicate slender linesE
Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travelA2
Tying the Eastern to the Western seaE
The road between Europe and AsiaB
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Ah Genoese thy dream thy dreamD2
Centuries after thou art laid in thy graveF2
The shore thou foundest verifies thy dreamD2
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Passage to IndiaB
Struggles of many a captain tales of many a sailor deadB
Over my mood stealing and spreading they comeG2
Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach'd skyH2
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Along all history down the slopesE
As a rivulet running sinking now and now again to the surfaceE
risingQ
A ceaseless thought a varied train Lo soul to thee thy sightB
they riseE
The plans the voyages again the expeditionsE
Again Vasco de Gama sails forthI2
Again the knowledge gain'd the mariner's compassE
Lands found and nations born thou born America a hemisphereT
unbornJ2
For purpose vast man's long probation fill'dB
Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'dB
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O vast Rondure swimming in spaceE
Cover'd all over with visible power and beautyE
Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darknessE
Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless starsE
aboveK2
Below the manifold grass and waters animals mountains treesE
With inscrutable purpose some hidden prophetic intentionO
Now first it seems my thought begins to span theeE
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Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiatingQ
Adam and Eve appear then their myriad progeny after themL2
Wandering yearning curious with restless explorationsE
With questionings baffled formless feverish with never happyE
heartsE
With that sad incessant refrain Wherefore unsatisfied Soul andB
Whither O mocking LifeM2
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Ah who shall soothe these feverish childrenO
Who justify these restless explorationsE
Who speak the secret of impassive EarthN2
Who bind it to us What is this separate Nature so unnaturalA2
What is this Earth to our affections unloving earth without aB
throb to answer oursE
Cold earth the place of gravesE
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Yet soul be sure the first intent remains and shall be carriedB
outB
Perhaps even now the time has arrivedB
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After the seas are all cross'd as they seem already cross'dB
After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their workR
After the noble inventors after the scientists the chemist theB
geologist ethnologistB
Finally shall come the Poet worthy that nameC2
The true Son of God shall come singing his songsE
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Then not your deeds only O voyagers O scientists and inventorsE
shall be justifiedB
All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'dB
All affection shall be fully responded to the secret shall be toldB
All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd andB
link'd togetherU
The whole Earth this cold impassive voiceless Earth shall beE
completely justifiedB
Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by theB
the Son of God the poetB
He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountainsE
He shall double the Cape of Good Hope to some purposeE
Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no moreW
The true Son of God shall absolutely fuse themL2
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Year at whose open'd wide flung door I singQ
Year of the purpose accomplish'dB
Year of the marriage of continents climates and oceansE
No mere Doge of Venice now wedding the AdriaticE2
I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe giS

Walt Whitman



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