Says Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EFAG HHDI JKLMNOHFPAA QHRSHTUV FWXYZXA2 XB2C2D2HI SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person that is | A |
finally right | B |
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I say nourish a great intellect a great brain | C |
If I have said anything to the contrary I hereby retract it | D |
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I say man shall not hold property in man | E |
I say the least developed person on earth is just as important and | F |
sacred to himself or herself as the most developed person is | A |
to himself or herself | G |
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I say where liberty draws not the blood out of slavery there slavery | H |
draws the blood out of liberty | H |
I say the word of the good old cause in These States and resound it | D |
hence over the world | I |
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I say the human shape or face is so great it must never be made | J |
ridiculous | K |
I say for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed | L |
And that anything is most beautiful without ornament | M |
And that exaggerations will be sternly revenged in your own | N |
physiology and in other persons' physiology also | O |
And I say that clean shaped children can be jetted and conceived only | H |
where natural forms prevail in public and the human face and | F |
form are never caricatured | P |
And I say that genius need never more be turned to romances | A |
For facts properly told how mean appear all romances | A |
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I say the word of lands fearing nothing I will have no other land | Q |
I say discuss all and expose all I am for every topic openly | H |
I say there can be no salvation for These States without innovators | R |
without free tongues and ears willing to hear the tongues | S |
And I announce as a glory of These States that they respectfully | H |
listen to propositions reforms fresh views and doctrines | T |
from successions of men and women | U |
Each age with its own growth | V |
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I have said many times that materials and the Soul are great and | F |
that all depends on physique | W |
Now I reverse what I said and affirm that all depends on the | X |
sthetic or intellectual | Y |
And that criticism is great and that refinement is greatest of all | Z |
And I affirm now that the mind governs and that all depends on the | X |
mind | A2 |
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With one man or woman no matter which one I even pick out the | X |
lowest | B2 |
With him or her I now illustrate the whole law | C2 |
I say that every right in politics or what not shall be eligible to | D2 |
that one man or woman on the same terms as any | H |
Walt Whitman
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