Respondez! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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RESPONDEZ RespondezA
The war is completed the price is paid the title is settled beyondB
recallC
Let every one answer let those who sleep be waked let none evadeD
Must we still go on with our affectations and sneakingE
Let me bring this to a close I pronounce openly for a newF
distribution of rolesA
Let that which stood in front go behind and let that which wasA
behind advance to the front and speakG
Let murderers bigots fools unclean persons offer newF
propositionsA
Let the old propositions be postponedH
Let faces and theories be turn'd inside out let meanings be freelyI
criminal as well as resultsA
Let there be no suggestion above the suggestion of drudgeryI
Let none be pointed toward his destination Say do you know yourJ
destinationK
Let men and women be mock'd with bodies and mock'd with SoulsA
Let the love that waits in them wait let it die or pass stillbornL
to other spheresA
Let the sympathy that waits in every man wait or let it also passA
a dwarf to other spheresA
Let contradictions prevail let one thing contradict another and letM
one line of my poems contradict anotherN
Let the people sprawl with yearning aimless hands let their tonguesA
be broken let their eyes be discouraged let none descend intoF
their hearts with the fresh lusciousness of loveO
Stifled O days O lands in every public and private corruptionK
Smother'd in thievery impotence shamelessness mountain highP
Brazen effrontery scheming rolling like ocean's waves around andQ
upon you O my days my landsA
For not even those thunderstorms nor fiercest lightnings of the warJ
have purified the atmosphereR
Let the theory of America still be management caste comparisonK
Say what other theory would youF
Let them that distrust birth and death still lead the rest Say whyP
shall they not lead youF
Let the crust of hell be neared and trod on let the days be darkerN
than the nights let slumber bring less slumber than wakingE
time bringsA
Let the world never appear to him or her for whom it was all madeD
Let the heart of the young man still exile itself from the heart ofO
the old man and let the heart of the old man be exiled fromS
that of the young manT
Let the sun and moon go let scenery take the applause of theU
audience let there be apathy under the starsA
Let freedom prove no man's inalienable right every one who canT
tyrannize let him tyrannize to his satisfactionK
Let none but infidels be countenancedV
Let the eminence of meanness treachery sarcasm hate greedW
indecency impotence lust be taken for granted above all letM
writers judges governments households religionsA
philosophies take such for granted above allC
Let the worst men beget children out of the worst womenK
Let the priest still play at immortalityI
Let death be inauguratedX
Let nothing remain but the ashes of teachers artists moralistsA
lawyers and learn'd and polite personsA
Let him who is without my poems be assassinatedY
Let the cow the horse the camel the garden bee let the mudfishZ
the lobster the mussel eel the sting ray and the gruntingE
pig fish let these and the like of these be put on a perfectA2
equality with man and womanK
Let churches accommodate serpents vermin and the corpses of thoseA
who have died of the most filthy of diseasesA
Let marriage slip down among fools and be for none but foolsA
Let men among themselves talk and think forever obscenely of womenK
and let women among themselves talk and think obscenely of menB2
Let us all without missing one be exposed in public nakedY
monthly at the peril of our lives let our bodies be freelyI
handled and examined by whoever choosesA
Let nothing but copies at second hand be permitted to exist upon theU
earthC2
Let the earth desert God nor let there ever henceforth be mention'dQ
the name of GodD2
Let there be no GodD2
Let there be money business imports exports custom authorityI
precedents pallor dyspepsia smut ignorance unbeliefO
Let judges and criminals be transposed let the prison keepers be putE2
in prison let those that were prisoners take the keys SayA
why might they not just as well be transposedF2
Let the slaves be masters let the masters become slavesA
Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are foreverN
bawling let an idiot or insane person appear on each of theU
standsA
Let the Asiatic the African the European the American and theU
Australian go armed against the murderous stealthiness of eachZ
other let them sleep armed let none believe in good willG2
Let there be no unfashionable wisdom let such be scorn'd and deridedX
off from the earthC2
Let a floating cloud in the sky let a wave of the sea let growingE
mint spinach onions tomatoes let these be exhibited asA
shows at a great price for admissionK
Let all the men of These States stand aside for a few smouchers letM
the few seize on what they choose let the rest gawk giggleH2
starve obeyA
Let shadows be furnish'd with genitals let substances be deprived ofO
their genitalsA
Let there be wealthy and immense cities but still through any ofO
them not a single poet savior knower loverN
Let the infidels of These States laugh all faith awayA
If one man be found who has faith let the rest set upon himI2
Let them affright faith let them destroy the power of breedingE
faithJ2
Let the she harlots and the he harlots be prudent let them dance onK2
while seeming lasts O seeming seeming seemingE
Let the preachers recite creeds let them still teach only what theyA
have been taughtL2
Let insanity still have charge of sanityI
Let books take the place of trees animals rivers cloudsA
Let the daub'd portraits of heroes supersede heroesA
Let the manhood of man never take steps after itselfO
Let it take steps after eunuchs and after consumptive and genteelM2
personsA
Let the white person again tread the black person under his heelM2
Say which is trodden under heel after allC
Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied in mirrorsA
let the things themselves still continue unstudiedI
Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himselfO
Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herselfO
What real happiness have you had one single hour through your wholeN2
lifeO
Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years ofO
death What do you suppose death will do thenB2

Walt Whitman



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