Respondez! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAAGFAHIAIJKALA AAMNAFOKPQAJRKFPFNEA DOSTUATKVWMACKIXAAYZ EA2KAAAKB2YIAUC2QD2D 2IOE2AF2ANUAUZG2XC2E AKMH2AOAONAI2EJ2K2EA L2IAAOM2AM2CAIOON2OO B2| RESPONDEZ Respondez | A |
| The war is completed the price is paid the title is settled beyond | B |
| recall | C |
| Let every one answer let those who sleep be waked let none evade | D |
| Must we still go on with our affectations and sneaking | E |
| Let me bring this to a close I pronounce openly for a new | F |
| distribution of roles | A |
| Let that which stood in front go behind and let that which was | A |
| behind advance to the front and speak | G |
| Let murderers bigots fools unclean persons offer new | F |
| propositions | A |
| Let the old propositions be postponed | H |
| Let faces and theories be turn'd inside out let meanings be freely | I |
| criminal as well as results | A |
| Let there be no suggestion above the suggestion of drudgery | I |
| Let none be pointed toward his destination Say do you know your | J |
| destination | K |
| Let men and women be mock'd with bodies and mock'd with Souls | A |
| Let the love that waits in them wait let it die or pass stillborn | L |
| to other spheres | A |
| Let the sympathy that waits in every man wait or let it also pass | A |
| a dwarf to other spheres | A |
| Let contradictions prevail let one thing contradict another and let | M |
| one line of my poems contradict another | N |
| Let the people sprawl with yearning aimless hands let their tongues | A |
| be broken let their eyes be discouraged let none descend into | F |
| their hearts with the fresh lusciousness of love | O |
| Stifled O days O lands in every public and private corruption | K |
| Smother'd in thievery impotence shamelessness mountain high | P |
| Brazen effrontery scheming rolling like ocean's waves around and | Q |
| upon you O my days my lands | A |
| For not even those thunderstorms nor fiercest lightnings of the war | J |
| have purified the atmosphere | R |
| Let the theory of America still be management caste comparison | K |
| Say what other theory would you | F |
| Let them that distrust birth and death still lead the rest Say why | P |
| shall they not lead you | F |
| Let the crust of hell be neared and trod on let the days be darker | N |
| than the nights let slumber bring less slumber than waking | E |
| time brings | A |
| Let the world never appear to him or her for whom it was all made | D |
| Let the heart of the young man still exile itself from the heart of | O |
| the old man and let the heart of the old man be exiled from | S |
| that of the young man | T |
| Let the sun and moon go let scenery take the applause of the | U |
| audience let there be apathy under the stars | A |
| Let freedom prove no man's inalienable right every one who can | T |
| tyrannize let him tyrannize to his satisfaction | K |
| Let none but infidels be countenanced | V |
| Let the eminence of meanness treachery sarcasm hate greed | W |
| indecency impotence lust be taken for granted above all let | M |
| writers judges governments households religions | A |
| philosophies take such for granted above all | C |
| Let the worst men beget children out of the worst women | K |
| Let the priest still play at immortality | I |
| Let death be inaugurated | X |
| Let nothing remain but the ashes of teachers artists moralists | A |
| lawyers and learn'd and polite persons | A |
| Let him who is without my poems be assassinated | Y |
| Let the cow the horse the camel the garden bee let the mudfish | Z |
| the lobster the mussel eel the sting ray and the grunting | E |
| pig fish let these and the like of these be put on a perfect | A2 |
| equality with man and woman | K |
| Let churches accommodate serpents vermin and the corpses of those | A |
| who have died of the most filthy of diseases | A |
| Let marriage slip down among fools and be for none but fools | A |
| Let men among themselves talk and think forever obscenely of women | K |
| and let women among themselves talk and think obscenely of men | B2 |
| Let us all without missing one be exposed in public naked | Y |
| monthly at the peril of our lives let our bodies be freely | I |
| handled and examined by whoever chooses | A |
| Let nothing but copies at second hand be permitted to exist upon the | U |
| earth | C2 |
| Let the earth desert God nor let there ever henceforth be mention'd | Q |
| the name of God | D2 |
| Let there be no God | D2 |
| Let there be money business imports exports custom authority | I |
| precedents pallor dyspepsia smut ignorance unbelief | O |
| Let judges and criminals be transposed let the prison keepers be put | E2 |
| in prison let those that were prisoners take the keys Say | A |
| why might they not just as well be transposed | F2 |
| Let the slaves be masters let the masters become slaves | A |
| Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever | N |
| bawling let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the | U |
| stands | A |
| Let the Asiatic the African the European the American and the | U |
| Australian go armed against the murderous stealthiness of each | Z |
| other let them sleep armed let none believe in good will | G2 |
| Let there be no unfashionable wisdom let such be scorn'd and derided | X |
| off from the earth | C2 |
| Let a floating cloud in the sky let a wave of the sea let growing | E |
| mint spinach onions tomatoes let these be exhibited as | A |
| shows at a great price for admission | K |
| Let all the men of These States stand aside for a few smouchers let | M |
| the few seize on what they choose let the rest gawk giggle | H2 |
| starve obey | A |
| Let shadows be furnish'd with genitals let substances be deprived of | O |
| their genitals | A |
| Let there be wealthy and immense cities but still through any of | O |
| them not a single poet savior knower lover | N |
| Let the infidels of These States laugh all faith away | A |
| If one man be found who has faith let the rest set upon him | I2 |
| Let them affright faith let them destroy the power of breeding | E |
| faith | J2 |
| Let the she harlots and the he harlots be prudent let them dance on | K2 |
| while seeming lasts O seeming seeming seeming | E |
| Let the preachers recite creeds let them still teach only what they | A |
| have been taught | L2 |
| Let insanity still have charge of sanity | I |
| Let books take the place of trees animals rivers clouds | A |
| Let the daub'd portraits of heroes supersede heroes | A |
| Let the manhood of man never take steps after itself | O |
| Let it take steps after eunuchs and after consumptive and genteel | M2 |
| persons | A |
| Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel | M2 |
| Say which is trodden under heel after all | C |
| Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied in mirrors | A |
| let the things themselves still continue unstudied | I |
| Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself | O |
| Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself | O |
| What real happiness have you had one single hour through your whole | N2 |
| life | O |
| Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of | O |
| death What do you suppose death will do then | B2 |
Walt Whitman
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