Song At Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEE FEGAHB IEEJKLM NOPEQRSTU VWXYZEA2 B2EC2D2 DE2V AEEF2AG2H2I2 J2EEEEE K2F| Splendor of ended day floating and filling me | A |
| Hour prophetic hour resuming the past | B |
| Inflating my throat you divine average | C |
| You Earth and Life till the last ray gleams I sing | D |
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| Open mouth of my Soul uttering gladness | E |
| Eyes of my Soul seeing perfection | F |
| Natural life of me faithfully praising things | E |
| Corroborating forever the triumph of things | E |
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| Illustrious every one | F |
| Illustrious what we name space sphere of unnumber'd spirits | E |
| Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings even the tiniest insect | G |
| Illustrious the attribute of speech the senses the body | A |
| Illustrious the passing light Illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky | H |
| Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch to the last | B |
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| Good in all | I |
| In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals | E |
| In the annual return of the seasons | E |
| In the hilarity of youth | J |
| In the strength and flush of manhood | K |
| In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age | L |
| In the superb vistas of Death | M |
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| Wonderful to depart | N |
| Wonderful to be here | O |
| The heart to jet the all alike and innocent blood | P |
| To breathe the air how delicious | E |
| To speak to walk to seize something by the hand | Q |
| To prepare for sleep for bed to look on my rose color'd flesh | R |
| To be conscious of my body so satisfied so large | S |
| To be this incredible God I am | T |
| To have gone forth among other Gods these men and women I love | U |
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| Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself | V |
| How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around | W |
| How the clouds pass silently overhead | X |
| How the earth darts on and on and how the sun moon stars dart on and on | Y |
| How the water sports and sings Surely it is alive | Z |
| How the trees rise and stand up with strong trunks with branches and leaves | E |
| Surely there is something more in each of the tree some living Soul | A2 |
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| O amazement of things even the least particle | B2 |
| O spirituality of things | E |
| O strain musical flowing through ages and continents now reaching me and America | C2 |
| I take your strong chords I intersperse them and cheerfully pass them forward | D2 |
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| I too carol the sun usher'd or at noon or as now setting | D |
| I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth | E2 |
| I too have felt the resistless call of myself | V |
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| As I sail'd down the Mississippi | A |
| As I wander'd over the prairies | E |
| As I have lived As I have look'd through my windows my eyes | E |
| As I went forth in the morning As I beheld the light breaking in the east | F2 |
| As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea and again on the beach of the Western Sea | A |
| As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago whatever streets I have roam'd | G2 |
| Or cities or silent woods or peace or even amid the sights of war | H2 |
| Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph | I2 |
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| I sing the Equalities modern or old | J2 |
| I sing the endless finales of things | E |
| I say Nature continues Glory continues | E |
| I praise with electric voice | E |
| For I do not see one imperfection in the universe | E |
| And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe | E |
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| O setting sun though the time has come | K2 |
| I still warble under you if none else does unmitigated adoration | F |
Walt Whitman
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