So Long Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHFIBJ KLAFMNOBP FMAQR AAAFM MS OMM MFJMT OAMU MS UUUUUUUFUAUQUAAUVU WXA IMM UYZMA2 AQFMB2 MM FAAFAFUC2FM| TO conclude I announce what comes after me | A |
| I announce mightier offspring orators days and then for the | B |
| present depart | C |
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| I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all | D |
| I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to | E |
| consummations | F |
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| When America does what was promis'd | G |
| When there are plentiful athletic bards inland and seaboard | H |
| When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons | F |
| When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them | I |
| When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America | B |
| Then to me and mine our due fruition | J |
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| I have press'd through in my own right | K |
| I have sung the Body and the Soul War and Peace have I sung | L |
| And the songs of Life and of Birth and shown that there are many | A |
| births | F |
| I have offer'd my style to everyone I have journey'd with confident | M |
| step | N |
| While my pleasure is yet at the full I whisper So long | O |
| And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the | B |
| last time | P |
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| I announce natural persons to arise | F |
| I announce justice triumphant | M |
| I announce uncompromising liberty and equality | A |
| I announce the justification of candor and the justification of | Q |
| pride | R |
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| I announce that the identity of These States is a single identity | A |
| only | A |
| I announce the Union more and more compact indissoluble | A |
| I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics | F |
| of the earth insignificant | M |
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| I announce adhesiveness I say it shall be limitless unloosen'd | M |
| I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for | S |
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| I announce a man or woman coming perhaps you are the one So long | O |
| I announce the great individual fluid as Nature chaste | M |
| affectionate compassionate fully armed | M |
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| I announce a life that shall be copious vehement spiritual bold | M |
| I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its | F |
| translation | J |
| I announce myriads of youths beautiful gigantic sweet blooded | M |
| I announce a race of splendid and savage old men | T |
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| O thicker and faster So long | O |
| O crowding too close upon me | A |
| I foresee too much it means more than I thought | M |
| It appears to me I am dying | U |
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| Hasten throat and sound your last | M |
| Salute me salute the days once more Peal the old cry once more | S |
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| Screaming electric the atmosphere using | U |
| At random glancing each as I notice absorbing | U |
| Swiftly on but a little while alighting | U |
| Curious envelop'd messages delivering | U |
| Sparkles hot seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping | U |
| Myself unknowing my commission obeying to question it never daring | U |
| To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving | U |
| To troops out of me out of the army the war arising they the tasks | F |
| I have set promulging | U |
| To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing their affection me | A |
| more clearly explaining | U |
| To young men my problems offering no dallier I I the muscle of | Q |
| their brains trying | U |
| So I pass a little time vocal visible contrary | A |
| Afterward a melodious echo passionately bent for death making me | A |
| really undying | U |
| The best of me then when no longer visible for toward that I have | V |
| been incessantly preparing | U |
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| What is there more that I lag and pause and crouch extended with | W |
| unshut mouth | X |
| Is there a single final farewell | A |
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| My songs cease I abandon them | I |
| From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to | M |
| you | M |
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| Camerado This is no book | U |
| Who touches this touches a man | Y |
| Is it night Are we here alone | Z |
| It is I you hold and who holds you | M |
| I spring from the pages into your arms decease calls me forth | A2 |
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| O how your fingers drowse me | A |
| Your breath falls around me like dew your pulse lulls the tympans of | Q |
| my ears | F |
| I feel immerged from head to foot | M |
| Delicious enough | B2 |
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| Enough O deed impromptu and secret | M |
| Enough O gliding present Enough O summ'd up past | M |
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| Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss | F |
| I give it especially to you Do not forget me | A |
| I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile | A |
| I receive now again of my many translations from my avataras | F |
| ascending while others doubtless await me | A |
| An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd more direct darts | F |
| awakening rays about me So long | U |
| Remember my words I may again return | C2 |
| I love you I depart from materials | F |
| I am as one disembodied triumphant dead | M |
Walt Whitman
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