The Prairie-grass Dividing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEAFGHIJKLTHE prairie grass dividing its special odor breathing | A |
I demand of it the spiritual corresponding | A |
Demand the most copious and close companionship of men | B |
Demand the blades to rise of words acts beings | C |
Those of the open atmosphere coarse sunlit fresh nutritious | D |
Those that go their own gait erect stepping with freedom and | E |
command leading not following | A |
Those with a never quell'd audacity those with sweet and lusty | F |
flesh clear of taint | G |
Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and Governors | H |
as to say Who are you | I |
Those of earth born passion simple never constrain'd never | J |
obedient | K |
Those of inland America | L |
Walt Whitman
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