Sparkles From The Wheel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHIJ FKLMN DOPQRJ| WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the live long day | A |
| Withdrawn I join a group of children watching I pause aside with | B |
| them | C |
| - | |
| By the curb toward the edge of the flagging | D |
| A knife grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife | E |
| Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone by foot and knee | F |
| With measur'd tread he turns rapidly As he presses with light but | G |
| firm hand | H |
| Forth issue then in copious golden jets | I |
| Sparkles from the wheel | J |
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| - | |
| The scene and all its belongings how they seize and affect me | F |
| The sad sharp chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad | K |
| shoulder band of leather | L |
| Myself effusing and fluid a phantom curiously floating now here | M |
| absorb'd and arrested | N |
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| The group an unminded point set in a vast surrounding | D |
| The attentive quiet children the loud proud restive base of the | O |
| streets | P |
| The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone the light press'd blade | Q |
| Diffusing dropping sideways darting in tiny showers of gold | R |
| Sparkles from the wheel | J |
Walt Whitman
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