These, I, Singing In Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMJNOPFJQ RFSTJUVW| These I singing in spring collect for lovers | A |
| For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy | B |
| And who but I should be the poet of comrades | C |
| Collecting I traverse the garden the world but soon I pass the gates | D |
| Now along the pond side now wading in a little fearing not the wet | E |
| Now by the post and rail fences where the old stones thrown there pick'd from the fields have accumulated | F |
| Wild flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them Beyond these I pass | G |
| Far far in the forest before I think where I go | H |
| Solitary smelling the earthy smell stopping now and then in the silence | I |
| Alone I had thought yet soon a troop gathers around me | J |
| Some walk by my side and some behind and some embrace my arms or neck | K |
| They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive thicker they come a great crowd and I in the middle | L |
| Collecting dispensing singing in spring there I wander with them | M |
| Plucking something for tokens tossing toward whoever is near me | J |
| Here lilac with a branch of pine | N |
| Here out of my pocket some moss which I pull'd off a live oak in Florida as it hung trailing down | O |
| Here some pinks and laurel leaves and a handful of sage | P |
| And here what I now draw from the water wading in the pondside | F |
| O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me and returns again never to separate from me | J |
| And this O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades this Calamus root shall | Q |
| Interchange it youths with each other Let none render it back | R |
| And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut | F |
| And stems of currants and plum blows and the aromatic cedar | S |
| These I compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits | T |
| Wandering point to or touch as I pass or throw them loosely from me | J |
| Indicating to each one what he shall have giving something to each | U |
| But what I drew from the water by the pond side that I reserve | V |
| I will give of it but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving | W |
Walt Whitman
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