To A Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEBFBAGHIJA| PASSING stranger you do not know how longingly I look upon you | A |
| You must be he I was seeking or she I was seeking it comes to me | B |
| as of a dream | C |
| I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you | A |
| All is recall'd as we flit by each other fluid affectionate | D |
| chaste matured | E |
| You grew up with me were a boy with me or a girl with me | B |
| I ate with you and slept with you your body has become not yours | F |
| only nor left my body mine only | B |
| You give me the pleasure of your eyes face flesh as we pass you | A |
| take of my beard breast hands in return | G |
| I am not to speak to you I am to think of you when I sit alone or | H |
| wake at night alone | I |
| I am to wait I do not doubt I am to meet you again | J |
| I am to see to it that I do not lose you | A |
Walt Whitman
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