Spirit Whose Work Is Done Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDEDEFDGHAAEDDIJ DKLMNO| SPIRIT whose work is done spirit of dreadful hours | A |
| Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets | B |
| Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts yet onward ever unfaltering | C |
| pressing | C |
| Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene Electric | C |
| spirit | D |
| That with muttering voice through the war now closed like a | E |
| tireless phantom flitted | D |
| Rousing the land with breath of flame while you beat and beat the | E |
| drum | F |
| Now as the sound of the drum hollow and harsh to the last | D |
| reverberates round me | G |
| As your ranks your immortal ranks return return from the battles | H |
| While the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders | A |
| While I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders | A |
| While those slanted bayonets whole forests of them appearing in the | E |
| distance approach and pass on returning homeward | D |
| Moving with steady motion swaying to and fro to the right and left | D |
| Evenly lightly rising and falling as the steps keep time | I |
| Spirit of hours I knew all hectic red one day but pale as death | J |
| next day | D |
| Touch my mouth ere you depart press my lips close | K |
| Leave me your pulses of rage bequeath them to me fill me with | L |
| currents convulsive | M |
| Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone | N |
| Let them identify you to the future in these songs | O |
Walt Whitman
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