You Felons On Trial In Courts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DE FGHI JCKLEE| You felons on trial in courts | A |
| You convicts in prison cells you sentenced assassins chain'd and hand cuff'd with iron | B |
| Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison | C |
| Me ruthless and devilish as any that my wrists are not chain'd with iron or my ankles with iron | B |
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| You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms | D |
| Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself | E |
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| O culpable | F |
| I acknowledge I expos | G |
| O admirers praise not me compliment not me you make me wince | H |
| I see what you do not I know what you do not | I |
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| Inside these breast bones I lie smutch'd and choked | J |
| Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell's tides continually run | C |
| Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me | K |
| I walk with delinquents with passionate love | L |
| I feel I am of them I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself | E |
| And henceforth I will not deny them for how can I deny myself | E |
Walt Whitman
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