Thou Orb Aloft Full-dazzling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FEGHGI JKLIMNO PQRSTUVEGWX UYZA2| THOU orb aloft full dazzling thou hot October noon | A |
| Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand | B |
| The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam | C |
| And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue | D |
| O sun of noon rufulgent my special word to thee | E |
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| Hear me illustrious | F |
| Thy lover me for always I have loved thee | E |
| Even as basking babe then happy boy alone by some wood edge thy | G |
| touching distant beams enough | H |
| Or man matured or young or old as now to thee I launch my | G |
| invocation | I |
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| Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive | J |
| I know before the fitting man all Nature yields | K |
| Though answering not in words the skies trees hear his voice and | L |
| thou O sun | I |
| As for thy throes thy perturbations sudden breaks and shafts of | M |
| flame gigantic | N |
| I understand them I know those flames those perturbations well | O |
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| Thou that with fructifying heat and light | P |
| O'er myriad farms o'er lands and waters North and South | Q |
| O'er Mississippi's endless course o'er Texas' grassy plains | R |
| Kanada's woods | S |
| O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space | T |
| Thou that impartially infoldest all not only continents seas | U |
| Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so | V |
| liberally | E |
| Shed shed thyself on mine and me with but a fleeting ray out of thy | G |
| million millions | W |
| Strike through these chants | X |
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| Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these | U |
| Prepare the later afternoon of me myself prepare my lengthening | Y |
| shadows | Z |
| Prepare my starry nights | A2 |
Walt Whitman
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