The Base Of All Metaphysics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FGHIJFKLKMNOP| AND now gentlemen | A |
| A word I give to remain in your memories and minds | B |
| As base and finale too for all metaphysics | C |
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| So to the students the old professor | D |
| At the close of his crowded course | E |
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| Having studied the new and antique the Greek and Germanic systems | F |
| Kant having studied and stated Fichte and Schelling and Hegel | G |
| Stated the lore of Plato and Socrates greater than Plato | H |
| And greater than Socrates sought and stated Christ divine having | I |
| studied long | J |
| I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems | F |
| See the philosophies all Christian churches and tenets see | K |
| Yet underneath Socrates clearly see and underneath Christ the divine | L |
| I see | K |
| The dear love of man for his comrade the attraction of friend to | M |
| friend | N |
| Of the well married husband and wife of children and parents | O |
| Of city for city and land for land | P |
Walt Whitman
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