States! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DCEF GH IG JKLFMNOK PQHR HST BPUV WPXY ZZZA2FHB2 IZZ C2ZG| STATES | A |
| Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers | B |
| By an agreement on a paper Or by arms | C |
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| Away | D |
| I arrive bringing these beyond all the forces of courts and arms | C |
| These to hold you together as firmly as the earth itself is held | E |
| together | F |
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| The old breath of life ever new | G |
| Here I pass it by contact to you America | H |
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| O mother have you done much for me | I |
| Behold there shall from me be much done for you | G |
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| There shall from me be a new friendship It shall be called after my | J |
| name | K |
| It shall circulate through The States indifferent of place | L |
| It shall twist and intertwist them through and around each other | F |
| Compact shall they be showing new signs | M |
| Affection shall solve every one of the problems of freedom | N |
| Those who love each other shall be invincible | O |
| They shall finally make America completely victorious in my name | K |
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| One from Massachusetts shall be comrade to a Missourian | P |
| One from Maine or Vermont and a Carolinian and an Oregonese shall | Q |
| be friends triune more precious to each other than all the | H |
| riches of the earth | R |
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| To Michigan shall be wafted perfume from Florida | H |
| To the Mannahatta from Cuba or Mexico | S |
| Not the perfume of flowers but sweeter and wafted beyond death | T |
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| No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers | B |
| If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one | P |
| The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for the Kansian and | U |
| the Kansian for the Kanuck on due need | V |
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| It shall be customary in all directions in the houses and streets | W |
| to see manly affection | P |
| The departing brother or friend shall salute the remaining brother or | X |
| friend with a kiss | Y |
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| There shall be innovations | Z |
| There shall be countless linked hands namely the Northeasterner's | Z |
| and the Northwesterner's and the Southwesterner's and those | Z |
| of the interior and all their brood | A2 |
| These shall be masters of the world under a new power | F |
| They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the | H |
| world | B2 |
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| The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly | I |
| The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers | Z |
| The continuance of Equality shall be comrades | Z |
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| These shall tie and band stronger than hoops of iron | C2 |
| I extatic O partners O lands henceforth with the love of lovers | Z |
| tie you | G |
Walt Whitman
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