To One Shortly To Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCB DDEFGH HIJBDB| A | |
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| From all the rest I single out you having a message for you | B |
| You are to die Let others tell you what they please I cannot prevaricate | C |
| I am exact and merciless but I love you There is no escape for you | B |
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| Softly I lay my right hand upon you you just feel it | D |
| I do not argue I bend my head close and half envelope it | D |
| I sit quietly by I remain faithful | E |
| I am more than nurse more than parent or neighbor | F |
| I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily that is eternal you yourself will surely escape | G |
| The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious | H |
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| The sun bursts through in unlooked for directions | H |
| Strong thoughts fill you and confidence you smile | I |
| You forget you are sick as I forget you are sick | J |
| You do not see the medicines you do not mind the weeping friends I am with you | B |
| I exclude others from you there is nothing to be commiserated | D |
| I do not commiserate I congratulate you | B |
Walt Whitman
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