With Antecedents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNGOPQ RASTFUVWWXYZA2 A2E XB2C2ED2E2XF2 G2KH2 I2H2J2SIXXQ| WITH antecedents | A |
| With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages | B |
| With all which had it not been I would not now be here as I am | C |
| With Egypt India Phenicia Greece and Rome | D |
| With the Kelt the Scandinavian the Alb and the Saxon | E |
| With antique maritime ventures with laws artizanship wars and | F |
| journeys | G |
| With the poet the skald the saga the myth and the oracle | H |
| With the sale of slaves with enthusiasts with the troubadour the | I |
| crusader and the monk | J |
| With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent | K |
| With the fading kingdoms and kings over there | L |
| With the fading religions and priests | M |
| With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present | K |
| shores | N |
| With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these | G |
| years | O |
| You and Me arrived America arrived and making this year | P |
| This year sending itself ahead countless years to come | Q |
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| O but it is not the years it is I it is You | R |
| We touch all laws and tally all antecedents | A |
| We are the skald the oracle the monk and the knight we easily | S |
| include them and more | T |
| We stand amid time beginningless and endless we stand amid evil and | F |
| good | U |
| All swings around us there is as much darkness as light | V |
| The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us | W |
| Its sun and its again all swing around us | W |
| As for me torn stormy even as I amid these vehement days | X |
| I have the idea of all and am all and believe in all | Y |
| I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true I reject no | Z |
| part | A2 |
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| Have I forgotten any part | A2 |
| Come to me whoever and whatever till I give you recognition | E |
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| I respect Assyria China Teutonia and the Hebrews | X |
| I adopt each theory myth god and demi god | B2 |
| I see that the old accounts bibles genealogies are true without | C2 |
| exception | E |
| I assert that all past days were what they should have been | D2 |
| And that they could no how have been better than they were | E2 |
| And that to day is what it should be and that America is | X |
| And that to day and America could no how be better than they are | F2 |
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| In the name of These States and in your and my name the Past | G2 |
| And in the name of These States and in your and my name the Present | K |
| time | H2 |
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| I know that the past was great and the future will be great | I2 |
| And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time | H2 |
| For the sake of him I typify for the common average man's sake | J2 |
| your sake if you are he | S |
| And that where I am or you are this present day there is the | I |
| centre of all days all races | X |
| And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races | X |
| and days or ever will come | Q |
Walt Whitman
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