To You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGG HID HJD DDKDLDMK NOPOAQ DKRSAAT DUDVDEAEWX DDDD DAD YDAZA2B2A2 EC2KYZ| Whoever you are I fear you are walking the walks of dreams | A |
| I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands | B |
| Even now your features joys speech house trade manners troubles follies | C |
| costume crimes dissipate away from you | D |
| Your true Soul and Body appear before me | E |
| They stand forth out of affairs out of commerce shops law science | F |
| work forms clothes the house medicine print buying selling eating | G |
| drinking suffering dying | G |
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| Whoever you are now I place my hand upon you that you be my poem | H |
| I whisper with my lips close to your ear | I |
| I have loved many women and men but I love none better than you | D |
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| O I have been dilatory and dumb | H |
| I should have made my way straight to you long ago | J |
| I should have blabb'd nothing but you I should have chanted nothing but you | D |
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| I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you | D |
| None have understood you but I understand you | D |
| None have done justice to you you have not done justice to yourself | K |
| None but have found you imperfect I only find no imperfection in you | D |
| None but would subordinate you I only am he who will never consent | L |
| to subordinate you | D |
| I only am he who places over you no master owner better God beyond | M |
| what waits intrinsically in yourself | K |
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| Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre figure of all | N |
| From the head of the centre figure spreading a nimbus of gold color'd light | O |
| But I paint myriads of heads but paint no head without its nimbus of | P |
| gold color'd light | O |
| From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams | A |
| effulgently flowing forever | Q |
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| O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you | D |
| You have not known what you are you have slumber'd upon yourself | K |
| all your life | R |
| Your eye lids have been the same as closed most of the time | S |
| What you have done returns already in mockeries | A |
| Your thrift knowledge prayers if they do not return in mockeries | A |
| what is their return | T |
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| The mockeries are not you | D |
| Underneath them and within them I see you lurk | U |
| I pursue you where none else has pursued you | D |
| Silence the desk the flippant expression the night the accustom'd routine | V |
| if these conceal you from others or from yourself they do not conceal you | D |
| from me | E |
| The shaved face the unsteady eye the impure complexion if these balk others | A |
| they do not balk me | E |
| The pert apparel the deform'd attitude drunkenness greed premature death | W |
| all these I part aside | X |
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| There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you | D |
| There is no virtue no beauty in man or woman but as good is in you | D |
| No pluck no endurance in others but as good is in you | D |
| No pleasure waiting for others but an equal pleasure waits for you | D |
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| As for me I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you | D |
| I sing the songs of the glory of none not God sooner than I sing the songs | A |
| of the glory of you | D |
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| Whoever you are claim your own at any hazard | Y |
| These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you | D |
| These immense meadows these interminable rivers you are immense | A |
| and interminable as they | Z |
| These furies elements storms motions of Nature throes of apparent dissolution | A2 |
| you are he or she who is master or mistress over them | B2 |
| Master or mistress in your own right over Nature elements pain passion dissolution | A2 |
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| The hopples fall from your ankles you find an unfailing sufficiency | E |
| Old or young male or female rude low rejected by the rest whatever you are | C2 |
| promulges itself | K |
| Through birth life death burial the means are provided nothing is scanted | Y |
| Through angers losses ambition ignorance ennui what you are picks its way | Z |
Walt Whitman
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