To Think Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB ACA DD EFBB BG HEEIJDDKBL BG CMN OB BB PB BABQBR RARAI L BN RB RR RRSRBN TU VV LRARAB WE ABAR X BL BY BBLBBB ZZ VVA2 DDDDHR RBB2B2Y C2BD2 AA E2BBB RB BBA F2R SBB

To think of time of all that retrospectionA
To think of to day and the ages continued henceforwardB
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Have you guess'd you yourself would not continueA
Have you dreaded these earth beetlesC
Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to youA
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Is to day nothing Is the beginningless past nothingD
If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothingD
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To think that the sun rose in the east that men and women wereE
flexible real alive that everything was aliveF
To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our partB
To think that we are now here and bear our partB
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Not a day passes not a minute or second without an accouchementB
Not a day passes not a minute or second without a corpseG
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The dull nights go over and the dull days alsoH
The soreness of lying so much in bed goes overE
The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answerE
The children come hurried and weeping and the brothers and sisters are sent forI
Medicines stand unused on the shelf the camphor smell has long pervaded the roomsJ
The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dyingD
The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dyingD
The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceasesK
The corpse stretches on the bed and the living look upon itB
It is palpable as the living are palpableL
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The living look upon the corpse with their eye sightB
But without eye sight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpseG
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To think the thought of Death merged in the thought of materialsC
To think that the rivers will flow and the snow fall and fruits ripen and act upon others as upon us now yet not act upon usM
To think of all these wonders of city and country and others taking great interest in them and we taking no interest in themN
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To think how eager we are in building our housesO
To think others shall be just as eager and we quite indifferentB
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I see one building the house that serves him a few years or seventy or eighty years at mostB
I see one building the house that serves him longer than thatB
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Slow moving and black lines creep over the whole earth they never cease they are the burial linesP
He that was President was buried and he that is now President shall surely be buriedB
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A reminiscence of the vulgar fateB
A frequent sample of the life and death of workmenA
Each after his kindB
Cold dash of waves at the ferry wharf posh and ice in the river half frozen mud in the streets a gray discouraged sky overhead the short last daylight of Twelfth monthQ
A hearse and stages other vehicles give place the funeral of an oldB
Broadway stage driver the cortege mostly driversR
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Steady the trot to the cemetery duly rattles the death bell the gate is pass'd the new dug grave is halted at the living alight the hearse unclosesR
The coffin is pass'd out lower'd and settled the whip is laid on the coffin the earth is swiftly shovel'd inA
The mound above is flatted with the spades silenceR
A minute no one moves or speaks it is doneA
He is decently put away is there anything moreI
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He was a good fellow free mouth'd quick temper'd not bad looking able to take his own part witty sensitive to a slight ready with life or death for a friend fond of women gambled ate hearty drank hearty had known what it was to be flush grew low spirited toward the last sicken'd was help'd by a contribution died aged forty one years and that was his funeralL
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Thumb extended finger uplifted apron cape gloves strap wet weather clothes whip carefully chosen boss spotter starter hostler somebody loafing on you you loafing on somebody headway man before and man behind good day's work bad day's work pet stock mean stock first out last out turning in at nightB
To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers and he there takes no interest in themN
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The markets the government the working man's wages to think what account they are through our nights and daysR
To think that other working men will make just as great account of them yet we make little or no accountB
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The vulgar and the refined what you call sin and what you call goodness to think how wide a differenceR
To think the difference will still continue to others yet we lie beyond the differenceR
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To think how much pleasure there isR
Have you pleasure from looking at the sky have you pleasure from poemsR
Do you enjoy yourself in the city or engaged in business or planning a nomination and election or with your wife and familyS
Or with your mother and sisters or in womanly housework or the beautiful maternal caresR
These also flow onward to others you and I flow onwardB
But in due time you and I shall take less interest in themN
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Your farm profits crops to think how engross'd you areT
To think there will still be farms profits crops yet for you of what availU
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What will be will be well for what is is wellV
To take interest is well and not to take interest shall be wellV
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The sky continues beautifulL
The pleasure of men with women shall never be sated nor the pleasure of women with men nor the pleasure from poemsR
The domestic joys the daily housework or business the building of houses these are not phantasms they have weight form locationA
Farms profits crops markets wages government are none of them phantasmsR
The difference between sin and goodness is no delusionA
The earth is not an echo man and his life and all the things of his life are well consider'dB
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You are not thrown to the winds you gather certainly and safely around yourselfW
Yourself Yourself Yourself forever and everE
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It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father it is to identify youA
It is not that you should be undecided but that you should be decidedB
Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in youA
You are henceforth secure whatever comes or goesR
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The threads that were spun are gather'd the weft crosses the warp the pattern is systematicX
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The preparations have every one been justifiedB
The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments the baton has given the signalL
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The guest that was coming he waited long for reasons he is now housedB
He is one of those who are beautiful and happy he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enoughY
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The law of the past cannot be eludedB
The law of the present and future cannot be eludedB
The law of the living cannot be eluded it is eternalL
The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eludedB
The law of heroes and good doers cannot be eludedB
The law of drunkards informers mean persons not one iota thereof can be eludedB
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Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earthZ
Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific and they between and all through the Mississippi country and all over the earthZ
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The great masters and kosmos are well as they go the heroes and good doers are wellV
The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be wellV
But there is more account than that there is strict account of allA2
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The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothingD
The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothingD
The common people of Europe are not nothing the American aborigines are not nothingD
The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing the murderer or mean person is not nothingD
The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they goH
The lowest prostitute is not nothing the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goesR
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Of and in all these thingsR
I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much nor the law of us changedB
I have dream'd that heroes and good doers shall be under the present and past lawB2
And that murderers drunkards liars shall be under the present and past lawB2
For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enoughY
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If otherwise all came but to ashes of dungC2
If maggots and rats ended us then Alarum for we are betray'dB
Then indeed suspicion of deathD2
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Do you suspect death If I were to suspect death I should die nowA
Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well suited toward annihilationA
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Pleasantly and well suited I walkE2
Whither I walk I cannot define but I know it is goodB
The whole universe indicates that it is goodB
The past and the present indicate that it is goodB
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How beautiful and perfect are the animalsR
How perfect the earth and the minutest thing upon itB
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What is called good is perfect and what is called bad is just as perfectB
The vegetables and minerals are all perfect and the imponderable fluids are perfectB
Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this and slowly and surely they yet pass onA
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I swear I think now that everything without exception has an eternal SoulF2
The trees have rooted in the ground the weeds of the sea have the animalsR
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortalityS
That the exquisite scheme is for it and the nebulous float is for it and the cohering is for itB
And all preparation is for it and identity is for it and life and materials are altogether for itB

Walt Whitman



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