Who Learns My Lesson Complete? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG CHE EEF IJ EKLEEEE FFE JMJENJ DOJ JNJ EJNJ| WHO learns my lesson complete | A |
| Boss journeyman apprentice churchman and atheist | B |
| The stupid and the wise thinker parents and offspring merchant | C |
| clerk porter and customer | D |
| Editor author artist and schoolboy Draw nigh and commence | E |
| It is no lesson it lets down the bars to a good lesson | F |
| And that to another and every one to another still | G |
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| The great laws take and effuse without argument | C |
| I am of the same style for I am their friend | H |
| I love them quits and quits I do not halt and make salaams | E |
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| I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons | E |
| of things | E |
| They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen | F |
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| I cannot say to any person what I hear I cannot say it to myself it | I |
| is very wonderful | J |
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| It is no small matter this round and delicious globe moving so | E |
| exactly in its orbit forever and ever without one jolt or the | K |
| untruth of a single second | L |
| I do not think it was made in six days nor in ten thousand years | E |
| nor ten billions of years | E |
| Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans | E |
| and builds a house | E |
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| I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman | F |
| Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman | F |
| Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else | E |
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| Is it wonderful that I should be immortal as every one is immortal | J |
| I know it is wonderful but my eyesight is equally wonderful and how | M |
| I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful | J |
| And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers | E |
| and winters to articulate and walk All this is equally | N |
| wonderful | J |
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| And that my Soul embraces you this hour and we affect each other | D |
| without ever seeing each other and never perhaps to see each | O |
| other is every bit as wonderful | J |
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| And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful | J |
| And that I can remind you and you think them and know them to be | N |
| true is just as wonderful | J |
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| And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is | E |
| equally wonderful | J |
| And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally | N |
| wonderful | J |
Walt Whitman
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