Unnamed Lands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKCLM NOPQR STUVWXYZ A2A2B2C2 D2E2QF2G2 H2H2I2J2K2L2M2E2N2O2| NATIONS ten thousand years before These States and many times ten | A |
| thousand years before These States | B |
| Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and | C |
| travel'd their course and pass'd on | D |
| What vast built cities what orderly republics what pastoral tribes | E |
| and nomads | F |
| What histories rulers heroes perhaps transcending all others | G |
| What laws customs wealth arts traditions | H |
| What sort of marriage what costumes what physiology and phrenology | I |
| What of liberty and slavery among them what they thought of death | J |
| and the soul | K |
| Who were witty and wise who beautiful and poetic who brutish and | C |
| undevelop'd | L |
| Not a mark not a record remains And yet all remains | M |
| - | |
| O I know that those men and women were not for nothing any more than | N |
| we are for nothing | O |
| I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much | P |
| as we now belong to it and as all will henceforth belong to | Q |
| it | R |
| - | |
| Afar they stand yet near to me they stand | S |
| Some with oval countenances learn'd and calm | T |
| Some naked and savage Some like huge collections of insects | U |
| Some in tents herdsmen patriarchs tribes horsemen | V |
| Some prowling through woods Some living peaceably on farms | W |
| laboring reaping filling barns | X |
| Some traversing paved avenues amid temples palaces factories | Y |
| libraries shows courts theatres wonderful monuments | Z |
| - | |
| Are those billions of men really gone | A2 |
| Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone | A2 |
| Do their lives cities arts rest only with us | B2 |
| Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves | C2 |
| - | |
| I believe of all those billions of men and women that fill'd the | D2 |
| unnamed lands every one exists this hour here or elsewhere | E2 |
| invisible to us in exact proportion to what he or she grew | Q |
| from in life and out of what he or she did felt became | F2 |
| loved sinn'd in life | G2 |
| - | |
| I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of | H2 |
| them any more than this shall be the end of my nation or of | H2 |
| me | I2 |
| Of their languages governments marriage literature products | J2 |
| games wars manners crimes prisons slaves heroes poets | K2 |
| I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen | L2 |
| world counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world | M2 |
| I suspect I shall meet them there | E2 |
| I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed | N2 |
| lands | O2 |
Walt Whitman
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