Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCCDCECFGCHICCJK CLCMCNOLCPQRPSTSUHVW WRXYZA2| YEAR of meteors brooding year | A |
| I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs | B |
| I would sing your contest for the th Presidentiad | C |
| I would sing how an old man tall with white hair mounted the | D |
| scaffold in Virginia | D |
| I was at hand silent I stood with teeth shut close I watch'd | C |
| I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent but | C |
| trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the | D |
| scaffold | C |
| I would sing in my copious song your census returns of The States | E |
| The tables of population and products I would sing of your ships and | C |
| their cargoes | F |
| The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving some fill'd with | G |
| immigrants some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold | C |
| Songs thereof would I sing to all that hitherward comes would I | H |
| welcome give | I |
| And you would I sing fair stripling welcome to you from me sweet | C |
| boy of England | C |
| Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your | J |
| cortege of nobles | K |
| There in the crowds stood I and singled you out with attachment | C |
| I know not why but I loved you and so go forth little song | L |
| Far over sea speed like an arrow carrying my love all folded | C |
| And find in his palace the youth I love and drop these lines at his | M |
| feet | C |
| Nor forget I to sing of the wonder the ship as she swam up my bay | N |
| Well shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay she was | O |
| feet long | L |
| Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget | C |
| not to sing | P |
| Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in | Q |
| heaven | R |
| Nor the strange huge meteor procession dazzling and clear shooting | P |
| over our heads | S |
| A moment a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over | T |
| our heads | S |
| Then departed dropt in the night and was gone | U |
| Of such and fitful as they I sing with gleams from them would I | H |
| gleam and patch these chants | V |
| Your chants O year all mottled with evil and good year of | W |
| forebodings year of the youth I love | W |
| Year of comets and meteors transient and strange lo even here one | R |
| equally transient and strange | X |
| As I flit through you hastily soon to fall and be gone what is this | Y |
| book | Z |
| What am I myself but one of your meteors | A2 |
Walt Whitman
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