To Thee, Old Cause! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDD CEFCCGDHDTO thee old Cause | A |
Thou peerless passionate good cause | A |
Thou stern remorseless sweet Idea | B |
Deathless throughout the ages races lands | C |
After a strange sad war great war for thee | D |
I think all war through time was really fought and ever will be | D |
really fought for thee | D |
These chants for thee the eternal march of thee | D |
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Thou orb of many orbs | C |
Thou seething principle Thou well kept latent germ Thou centre | E |
Around the idea of thee the strange sad war revolving | F |
With all its angry and vehement play of causes | C |
With yet unknown results to come for thrice a thousand years | C |
These recitatives for thee my Book and the War are one | G |
Merged in its spirit I and mine as the contest hinged on thee | D |
As a wheel on its axis turns this Book unwitting to itself | H |
Around the Idea of thee | D |
Walt Whitman
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