Respondez! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAAGFAHIAIJKALA AAMNAFOKPQAJRKFPFNEA DOSTUATKVWMACKIXAAYZ EA2KAAAKB2YIAUC2QD2D 2IOE2AF2ANUAUZG2XC2E AKMH2AOAONAI2EJ2K2EA L2IAAOM2AM2CAIOON2OO B2RESPONDEZ 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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