Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHIFFJFF IKL M NOP IQR GSBBT UBBVGW| YOU just maturing youth You male or female | A |
| Remember the organic compact of These States | B |
| Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights | C |
| life liberty equality of man | D |
| Remember what was promulged by the founders ratified by The States | B |
| signed in black and white by the Commissioners and read by | E |
| Washington at the head of the army | F |
| Remember the purposes of the founders Remember Washington | G |
| Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward | H |
| America | I |
| Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men Cursed be | F |
| nation woman man without hospitality | F |
| Remember government is to subserve individuals | J |
| Not any not the President is to have one jot more than you or me | F |
| Not any habitan of America is to have one jot less than you or me | F |
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| Anticipate when the thirty or fifty millions are to become the | I |
| hundred or two hundred millions of equal freemen and | K |
| freewomen amicably joined | L |
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| Recall ages One age is but a part ages are but a part | M |
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| The eternal equilibrium of things is great and the eternal overthrow | N |
| of things is great | O |
| And there is another paradox | P |
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| Recall the angers bickerings delusions superstitions of the idea | I |
| of caste | Q |
| Recall the bloody cruelties and crimes | R |
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| Anticipate the best women | G |
| I say an unnumbered new race of hardy and well defined women are to | S |
| spread through all These States | B |
| I say a girl fit for These States must be free capable dauntless | B |
| just the same as a boy | T |
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| Anticipate your own life retract with merciless power | U |
| Shirk nothing retract in time Do you see those errors diseases | B |
| weaknesses lies thefts | B |
| Do you see that lost character Do you see decay consumption rum | V |
| drinking dropsy fever mortal cancer or inflammation | G |
| Do you see death and the approach of death | W |
Walt Whitman
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