Salut Au Monde Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O TAKE my hand Walt WhitmanA
Such gliding wonders such sights and soundsB
Such join'd unended links each hook'd to the nextC
Each answering all each sharing the earth with allD
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What widens within you Walt WhitmanA
What waves and soils exudingE
What climes what persons and lands are hereF
Who are the infants some playing some slumberingE
Who are the girls who are the married womenA
Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about eachG
other's necksH
What rivers are these what forests and fruits are theseI
What are the mountains call'd that rise so high in the mistsJ
What myriads of dwellings are they fill'd with dwellersK
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Within me latitude widens longitude lengthensL
Asia Africa Europe are to the east America is provided for in theM
westN
Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equatorO
Curiously north and south turn the axis endsP
Within me is the longest day the sun wheels in slanting rings itQ
does not set for monthsR
Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above theM
horizon and sinks againS
Within me zones seas cataracts plants volcanoes groupsT
Malaysia Polynesia and the great West Indian islandsU
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What do you hear Walt WhitmanA
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I hear the workman singing and the farmer's wife singingE
I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals earlyV
in the dayW
I hear quick rifle cracks from the riflemen of East Tennessee andX
Kentucky hunting on hillsY
I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horseZ
I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade toA2
the rebeck and guitarB2
I hear continual echoes from the ThamesC2
I hear fierce French liberty songsD2
I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of oldE2
poemsF2
I hear the Virginia plantation chorus of negroes of a harvest nightG2
in the glare of pine knotsH2
I hear the strong baritone of the 'long shore men of MannahattaG2
I hear the stevedores unlading the cargoes and singingE
I hear the screams of the water fowl of solitary north west lakesI2
I hear the rustling pattering of locusts as they strike the grainJ2
and grass with the showers of their terrible cloudsK2
I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown pensively falling on theM
breast of the black venerable vast mother the NileL2
I hear the bugles of raft tenders on the streams of KanadaG2
I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer and the bells of the muleM2
I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosqueN2
I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches I hearF
the responsive bass and sopranoO2
I hear the wail of utter despair of the white hair'd IrishP2
grandparents when they learn the death of their grandsonA
I hear the cry of the Cossack and the sailor's voice putting to seaV
at OkotskN2
I hear the wheeze of the slave coffle as the slaves march on as theM
husky gangs pass on by twos and threes fasten'd together withQ2
wrist chains and ankle chainsR2
I hear the entreaties of women tied up for punishment I hear theM
sibilant whisk of thongs through the airS2
I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalmsT2
I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks and the strong legends ofU2
the RomansL
I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautifulV2
God the ChristG2
I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves warsW2
adages transmitted safely to this day from poets who wroteG2
three thousand years agoN2
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What do you see Walt WhitmanA
Who are they you salute and that one after another salute youA2
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I see a great round wonder rolling through the airS2
I see diminute farms hamlets ruins grave yards jails factoriesI
palaces hovels huts of barbarians tents of nomads upon theM
surfaceX2
I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleepingN2
and the sun lit part on the other sideG2
I see the curious silent change of the light and shadeG2
I see distant lands as real and near to the inhabitants of them asY2
my land is to meV
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I see plenteous watersK
I see mountain peaks I see the sierras of Andes and AlleghaniesK
where they rangeZ2
I see plainly the Himalayas Chian Shahs Altays GhautsK
I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz Kazbek BazardjusiK
I see the Rocky Mountains and the Peak of WindsK
I see the Styrian Alps and the Karnac AlpsK
I see the Pyrenees Balks Carpathians and to the north theM
Dofrafields and off at sea Mount HeclaM
I see Vesuvius and Etna I see the AnahuacsK
I see the Mountains of the Moon and the Snow Mountains and the RedG2
Mountains of MadagascarO
I see the Vermont hills and the long string of CordillerasK
I see the vast deserts of Western AmericaM
I see the Lybian Arabian and Asiatic desertsK
I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergsK
I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones the Atlantic andG2
Pacific the sea of Mexico the Brazilian sea and the sea ofU2
PeruA2
The Japan waters those of Hindostan the China Sea and the Gulf ofU2
GuineaV
The spread of the Baltic Caspian Bothnia the British shores andG2
the Bay of BiscayM
The clear sunn'd Mediterranean and from one to another of itsK
islandsK
The inland fresh tasted seas of North AmericaM
The White Sea and the sea around GreenlandG2
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I behold the mariners of the worldG2
Some are in storms some in the night with the watch on the lookM
outG2
Some drifting helplessly some with contagious diseasesK
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I behold the sail and steamships of the world some in clusters inA3
port some on their voyagesK
Some double the Cape of Storms some Cape Verde others CapeB3
Guardafui Bon or BajadoreA2
Others Dondra Head others pass the Straits of Sunda others CapeB3
Lopatka others Behring's StraitsK
Others Cape Horn others sail the Gulf of Mexico or along Cuba orA2
Hayti others Hudson's Bay or Baffin's BayW
Others pass the Straits of Dover others enter the Wash others theM
Firth of Solway others round Cape Clear others the Land'sK
EndG2
Others traverse the Zuyder Zee or the ScheldG2
Others add to the exits and entrances at Sandy HookM
Others to the comers and goers at Gibraltar or the DardanellesK
Others sternly push their way through the northern winter packsK
Others descend or ascend the Obi or the LenaM
Others the Niger or the Congo others the Indus the Burampooter andG2
CambodiaM
Others wait at the wharves of Manhattan steam'd up ready to startG2
Wait swift and swarthy in the ports of AustraliaM
Wait at Liverpool Glasgow Dublin Marseilles Lisbon NaplesK
Hamburg Bremen Bordeaux the Hague CopenhagenA
Wait at Valparaiso Rio Janeiro PanamaC3
Wait at their moorings at Boston Philadelphia BaltimoreA2
Charleston New Orleans Galveston San FranciscoM
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I see the tracks of the rail roads of the earthD3
I see them welding State to State city to city through NorthE3
AmericaM
I see them in Great Britain I see them in EuropeF3
I see them in Asia and in AfricaM
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I see the electric telegraphs of the earthD3
I see the filaments of the news of the wars deaths losses gainsK
passions of my raceK
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I see the long river stripes of the earthD3

Walt Whitman



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