Says Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EFAG HHDI JKLMNOHFPAA QHRSHTUV FWXYZXA2 XB2C2D2H| I 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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