To The States Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFDBGAA| WHY reclining interrogating Why myself and all drowsing | A |
| What deepening twilight scum floating atop of the waters | B |
| Who are they as bats and night dogs askant in the Capitol | C |
| What a filthy Presidentiad O south your torrid suns O north your | D |
| arctic freezings | B |
| Are those really Congressmen are those the great Judges is that the | E |
| President | F |
| Then I will sleep awhile yet for I see that These States sleep for | D |
| reasons | B |
| With gathering murk with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we | G |
| all duly awake | A |
| South north east west inland and seaboard we will surely awake | A |
Walt Whitman
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