Scented Herbage Of My Breast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIDJKLMMCNOO COPQRSTUAVEAWXYZMA2B 2C2HC2D2E2F2KD2G2NH2 DMI2J2B2K2MJ2J2| SCENTED herbage of my breast | A |
| Leaves from you I yield I write to be perused best afterwards | B |
| Tomb leaves body leaves growing up above me above death | C |
| Perennial roots tall leaves O the winter shall not freeze you | D |
| delicate leaves | E |
| Every year shall you bloom again out from where you retired you | D |
| shall emerge again | F |
| O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or | G |
| inhale your faint odor but I believe a few will | H |
| O slender leaves O blossoms of my blood I permit you to tell in | I |
| your own way of the heart that is under you | D |
| O burning and throbbing surely all will one day be accomplish'd | J |
| O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves you are | K |
| not happiness | L |
| You are often more bitter than I can bear you burn and sting me | M |
| Yet you are very beautiful to me you faint tinged roots you make me | M |
| think of Death | C |
| Death is beautiful from you what indeed is finally beautiful | N |
| except Death and Love | O |
| O I think it is not for life I am chanting here my chant of | O |
| lovers I think it must be for Death | C |
| For how calm how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of | O |
| lovers | P |
| Death or life I am then indifferent my Soul declines to prefer | Q |
| I am not sure but the high Soul of lovers welcomes death most | R |
| Indeed O Death I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as | S |
| you mean | T |
| Grow up taller sweet leaves that I may see grow up out of my | U |
| breast | A |
| Spring away from the conceal'd heart there | V |
| Do not fold yourself so in your pink tinged roots timid leaves | E |
| Do not remain down there so ashamed herbage of my breast | A |
| Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine I have | W |
| long enough stifled and choked | X |
| Emblematic and capricious blade I leave you now you serve me not | Y |
| Away I will say what I have to say by itself | Z |
| I will escape from the sham that was proposed to me | M |
| I will sound myself and comrades only I will never again utter a | A2 |
| call only their call | B2 |
| I will raise with it immortal reverberations through The States | C2 |
| I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will | H |
| through The States | C2 |
| Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating | D2 |
| Give me your tone therefore O Death that I may accord with it | E2 |
| Give me yourself for I see that you belong to me now above all and | F2 |
| are folded inseparably together you Love and Death are | K |
| Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling | D2 |
| life | G2 |
| For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential | N |
| That you hide in these shifting forms of life for reasons and that | H2 |
| they are mainly for you | D |
| That you beyond them come forth to remain the real reality | M |
| That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait no matter how | I2 |
| long | J2 |
| That you will one day perhaps take control of all | B2 |
| That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance | K2 |
| That may be you are what it is all for but it does not last so very | M |
| long | J2 |
| But you will last very long | J2 |
Walt Whitman
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