Song Of Myself, Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FG HI GJ KLM MN OJPQR| Twenty eight young men bathe by the shore | A |
| Twenty eight young men and all so friendly | B |
| Twenty eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome | C |
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| She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank | D |
| She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window | E |
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| Which of the young men does she like the best | F |
| Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her | G |
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| Where are you off to lady for I see you | H |
| You splash in the water there yet stay stock still in your room | I |
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| Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty ninth bather | G |
| The rest did not see her but she saw them and loved them | J |
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| The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet it ran from their long | K |
| hair | L |
| Little streams pass'd over their bodies | M |
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| An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies | M |
| It descended trembling from their temples and ribs | N |
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| The young men float on their backs their white bellies bulge to the sun | O |
| they do not ask who seizes fast to them | J |
| They do not know who puffs and declines with the pendant and bending | P |
| arch | Q |
| They do not think whom they souse with spray | R |
Walt Whitman
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