Song Of The Universal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIJ KJJ KLM NOJP GQ RSC TUV WC TJX YZO A2B2C2J D2E2F2 G2OH2 WUI2U UJ2WW UWWGJ UK2L2M2C N2N2N2N2| COME said the Muse | A |
| Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted | B |
| Sing me the Universal | C |
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| In this broad Earth of ours | D |
| Amid the measureless grossness and the slag | E |
| Enclosed and safe within its central heart | F |
| Nestles the seed Perfection | G |
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| By every life a share or more or less | H |
| None born but it is born conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is | I |
| waiting | J |
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| Lo keen eyed towering Science | K |
| As from tall peaks the Modern overlooking | J |
| Successive absolute fiats issuing | J |
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| Yet again lo the Soul above all science | K |
| For it has History gather'd like a husk around the globe | L |
| For it the entire star myriads roll through the sky | M |
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| In spiral roads by long detours | N |
| As a much tacking ship upon the sea | O |
| For it the partial to the permanent flowing | J |
| For it the Real to the Ideal tends | P |
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| For it the mystic evolution | G |
| Not the right only justified what we call evil also justified | Q |
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| Forth from their masks no matter what | R |
| From the huge festering trunk from craft and guile and tears | S |
| Health to emerge and joy joy universal | C |
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| Out of the bulk the morbid and the shallow | T |
| Out of the bad majority the varied countless frauds of men and | U |
| States | V |
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| Electric antiseptic yet cleaving suffusing all | W |
| Only the good is universal | C |
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| Over the mountain growths disease and sorrow | T |
| An uncaught bird is ever hovering hovering | J |
| High in the purer happier air | X |
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| From imperfection's murkiest cloud | Y |
| Darts always forth one ray of perfect light | Z |
| One flash of Heaven's glory | O |
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| To fashion's custom's discord | A2 |
| To the mad Babel din the deafening orgies | B2 |
| Soothing each lull a strain is heard just heard | C2 |
| From some far shore the final chorus sounding | J |
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| O the blest eyes the happy hearts | D2 |
| That see that know the guiding thread so fine | E2 |
| Along the mighty labyrinth | F2 |
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| And thou America | G2 |
| For the Scheme's culmination its Thought and its Reality | O |
| For these not for thyself Thou hast arrived | H2 |
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| Thou too surroundest all | W |
| Embracing carrying welcoming all Thou too by pathways broad and | U |
| new | I2 |
| To the Ideal tendest | U |
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| The measur'd faiths of other lands the grandeurs of the past | U |
| Are not for Thee but grandeurs of Thine own | J2 |
| Deific faiths and amplitudes absorbing comprehending all | W |
| All eligible to all | W |
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| All all for Immortality | U |
| Love like the light silently wrapping all | W |
| Nature's amelioration blessing all | W |
| The blossoms fruits of ages orchards divine and certain | G |
| Forms objects growths humanities to spiritual Images ripening | J |
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| Give me O God to sing that thought | U |
| Give me give him or her I love this quenchless faith | K2 |
| In Thy ensemble Whatever else withheld withhold not from us | L2 |
| Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space | M2 |
| Health peace salvation universal | C |
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| Is it a dream | N2 |
| Nay but the lack of it the dream | N2 |
| And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream | N2 |
| And all the world a dream | N2 |
Walt Whitman
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