Prayer of Columbus : one of the most notable poems of Walt Whitman.
... remaining one, the he-bird, The solitary guest from Alabama, one has almost the rhythmical illusion of listening to a Sophoclean or Aeschylean chorus. In the opening stanzas of the noble Prayer of Columbus , there is a continuous iambic metrical stress, but with the choric movement. One finds the same thing sometimes in French vers libre ,—one poem at least of the kind I have seen of wonderful ...
... one, the he-bird, The solitary guest from Alabama, one has almost the rhythmical illusion of listening to a Sopho-clean or Aeschylean chorus. In the opening stanzas of the noble Prayer of Columbus, there is a continuous iambic metrical stress, but with the choric movement. One finds the same thing sometimes in French vers libre, —one poem at least of the kind I have seen of wonderful ...
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