Think Of The Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG HGI JKK LMNO PQQ RSR TQ UVWXV| THINK of the Soul | A |
| I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul | A |
| somehow to live in other spheres | B |
| I do not know how but I know it is so | C |
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| Think of loving and being loved | D |
| I swear to you whoever you are you can interfuse yourself with such | E |
| things that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon | F |
| you | G |
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| Think of the past | H |
| I warn you that in a little while others will find their past in you | G |
| and your times | I |
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| The race is never separated nor man nor woman escapes | J |
| All is inextricable things spirits Nature nations you too from | K |
| precedents you come | K |
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| Recall the ever welcome defiers The mothers precede them | L |
| Recall the sages poets saviors inventors lawgivers of the earth | M |
| Recall Christ brother of rejected persons brother of slaves | N |
| felons idiots and of insane and diseas'd persons | O |
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| Think of the time when you were not yet born | P |
| Think of times you stood at the side of the dying | Q |
| Think of the time when your own body will be dying | Q |
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| Think of spiritual results | R |
| Sure as the earth swims through the heavens does every one of its | S |
| objects pass into spiritual results | R |
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| Think of manhood and you to be a man | T |
| Do you count manhood and the sweet of manhood nothing | Q |
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| Think of womanhood and you to be a woman | U |
| The creation is womanhood | V |
| Have I not said that womanhood involves all | W |
| Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best | X |
| womanhood | V |
Walt Whitman
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