Years Of The Modern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHAECAIJKALMM AANJNOPJDJNQRSTOAJAJ EJJAUAEVE| YEARS of the modern years of the unperform'd | A |
| Your horizon rises I see it parting away for more august dramas | B |
| I see not America only I see not only Liberty's nation but other | C |
| nations preparing | D |
| I see tremendous entrances and exits I see new combinations I see | E |
| the solidarity of races | B |
| I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's | F |
| stage | G |
| Have the old forces the old wars played their parts are the acts | H |
| suitable to them closed | A |
| I see Freedom completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty | E |
| with Law on one side and Peace on the other | C |
| A stupendous Trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste | A |
| What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach | I |
| I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions | J |
| I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken | K |
| I see the landmarks of European kings removed | A |
| I see this day the People beginning their landmarks all others give | L |
| way | M |
| Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day | M |
| Never was average man his soul more energetic more like a God | A |
| Lo how he urges and urges leaving the masses no rest | A |
| His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere he colonizes the | N |
| Pacific the archipelagoes | J |
| With the steam ship the electric telegraph the newspaper the | N |
| wholesale engines of war | O |
| With these and the world spreading factories he interlinks all | P |
| geography all lands | J |
| What whispers are these O lands running ahead of you passing | D |
| under the seas | J |
| Are all nations communing is there going to be but one heart to the | N |
| globe | Q |
| Is humanity forming en masse for lo tyrants tremble crowns grow | R |
| dim | S |
| The earth restive confronts a new era perhaps a general divine | T |
| war | O |
| No one knows what will happen next such portents fill the days and | A |
| nights | J |
| Years prophetical the space ahead as I walk as I vainly try to | A |
| pierce it is full of phantoms | J |
| Unborn deeds things soon to be project their shapes around me | E |
| This incredible rush and heat this strange extatic fever of dreams | J |
| O years | J |
| Your dreams O year how they penetrate through me I know not | A |
| whether I sleep or wake | U |
| The perform'd America and Europe grow dim retiring in shadow behind | A |
| me | E |
| The unperform'd more gigantic than ever advance advance upon | V |
| me | E |
Walt Whitman
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