To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBB DBBBEF BBAGE BHIBHJBEBKLIMN MBO BPQRQN BB STUVW BWXWW| COURAGE yet my brother or my sister | A |
| Keep on Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs | B |
| That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures or any | C |
| number of failures | B |
| Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people or by any | C |
| unfaithfulness | B |
| Or the show of the tushes of power soldiers cannon penal statutes | B |
| - | |
| Revolt and still revolt revolt | D |
| What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents | B |
| and all the islands and archipelagos of the sea | B |
| What we believe in invites no one promises nothing sits in calmness | B |
| and light is positive and composed knows no discouragement | E |
| Waiting patiently waiting its time | F |
| - | |
| Not songs of loyalty alone are these | B |
| But songs of insurrection also | B |
| For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over | A |
| And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him | G |
| And stakes his life to be lost at any moment | E |
| - | |
| - | |
| Revolt and the downfall of tyrants | B |
| The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and | H |
| retreat | I |
| The infidel triumphs or supposes he triumphs | B |
| Then the prison scaffold garrote hand cuffs iron necklace and | H |
| anklet lead balls do their work | J |
| The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres | B |
| The great speakers and writers are exiled they lie sick in distant | E |
| lands | B |
| The cause is asleep the strongest throats are still choked with | K |
| their own blood | L |
| The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet | I |
| But for all this liberty has not gone out of the place nor the | M |
| infidel enter'd into full possession | N |
| - | |
| When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go nor the | M |
| second or third to go | B |
| It waits for all the rest to go it is the last | O |
| - | |
| When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs | B |
| And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged | P |
| from any part of the earth | Q |
| Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from | R |
| that part of the earth | Q |
| And the infidel come into full possession | N |
| - | |
| - | |
| Then courage European revolter revoltress | B |
| For till all ceases neither must you cease | B |
| - | |
| I do not know what you are for I do not know what I am for myself | S |
| nor what anything is for | T |
| But I will search carefully for it even in being foil'd | U |
| In defeat poverty misconception imprisonment for they too are | V |
| great | W |
| - | |
| Revolt and the bullet for tyrants | B |
| Did we think victory great | W |
| So it is But now it seems to me when it cannot be help'd that | X |
| defeat is great | W |
| And that death and dismay are great | W |
Walt Whitman
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire poem by Walt Whitman
Best Poems of Walt Whitman