Free verse in Walt Whitman's poems

reveille
(n.) a signal sounded to wake personnel in the armed forces, usually played on a bugle or drum
robust
(adj.) strong and healthy; vigorous (to describe a person)
serpentine
(adj.) of or like a serpent or snake; winding and twisting like a snake
sinewy
(adj.) well-muscled
sordid
(adj.) involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt; dirty or squalid
tremulous
(adj.) shaking or quivering slightly; timid, nervous
trestle
(n.) a framework consisting of a horizontal beam supported by two pairs of sloping legs, used in pairs to support a flat surface - like a tabletop
tympanum
(n.) a drum
unmitigated
(adj.) absolute, unqualified
wharves
(n. pl.) level quayside areas to which ships may be moored to load and unload

References

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   Pound, Ezra. "Walt Whitman", Whitman, Roy Harvey Pearce, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962: 8.
   
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   Brasher, Thomas L. (2008). Judith Tick, Paul E. Beaudoin (ed.). "Walt Whitman's Conversion To Opera". Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion. Oxford University Press: 207.
   
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   Reynolds, 83–84.
   
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   Merlob, Maya (2012). "Chapter 5: Celebrated Rubbish: John Neal and the Commercialization of Early American Romanticism". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 119n18. ISBN 978-1-61148-420-5.
   
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   Stacy, 87–91.
   
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   Alcott, L.M.; Elbert, S. (1997). Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555533076.
   
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   Schuessler, Jennifer (February 20, 2017). "In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to Leaves of Grass". The New York Times.
   
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   Schuessler, Jennifer (April 29, 2016). "Found: Walt Whitman's Guide to 'Manly Health'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2016. Now, Whitman's self-help-guide-meets-democratic-manifesto is being published online in its entirety by a scholarly journal, in what some experts are calling the biggest new Whitman discovery in decades.
   
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   "Special Double Issue: Walt Whitman's Newly Discovered 'Manly Health and Training'". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 33 (3). Winter–Spring 2016. ISSN 0737-0679. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
   
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    Whitman, Walt (1882). "Genealogy – Van Velsor and Whitman". Bartleby.com (excerpt from Specimen Days). Retrieved May 2, 2016. THE LATER years of the last century found the Van Velsor family, my mother's side, living on their own farm at Cold Spring, Long Island, New York State, ...
    
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    Onion, Rebecca (May 2, 2016). "Finding the Poetry in Walt Whitman's Newly-Rediscovered Health Advice". Slate.com. Retrieved May 2, 2016. a quirky document full of prescriptions that seem curiously modern
    
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    Cueto, Emma (May 2, 2016). "Walt Whitman's Advice Book For Men Has Just Been Discovered And Its Contents Are Surprising". Bustle. Retrieved May 2, 2016. And there are lots of other tidbits that, with a little modern rewording, would be right at home in the pages of a modern men's magazine—or even satirizing modern ideas about manliness because they're so over the top.
    
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    Turpin, Zachary (Winter–Spring 2016). "Introduction to Walt Whitman's 'Manly Health and Training'". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 33 (3): 149. doi:10.13008/0737-0679.2205. ISSN 0737-0679. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 3, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016. a pseudoscientific tract
    
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    Walls, Laura Dassow Henry David Thoreau - A Life, 394. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-226-59937-3
    

1 Whitman, Walt (1882). "Genealogy – Van Velsor and Whitman". Bartleby.com (excerpt from Specimen Days). Retrieved May 2, 2016. THE LATER years of the last century found the Van Velsor family, my mother's side, living on their own farm at Cold Spring, Long Island, New York State,

2,^ "Special Double Issue: Walt Whitman's Newly Discovered 'Manly Health and Training'". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 33 (3). Winter–Spring 2016. ISSN 0737-0679. Retrieved May 1, 2016.

3 Schuessler, Jennifer (April 29, 2016). "Found: Walt Whitman's Guide to 'Manly Health'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2016. Now, Whitman's self-help-guide-meets-democratic-manifesto is being published online in its entirety by a scholarly journal, in what some experts are calling the biggest new Whitman discovery in decades

4 Loving, Jerome (1999). Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. University of California Press.

5 ^ Alcott, L.M.; Elbert, S. (1997). Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery. Northeastern University

6 Schuessler, Jennifer (February 20, 2017). "In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to Leaves of Grass". The New York Times.

7.^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: neighborhood". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

8.^ "Leaves of Grass". World Digital Library. 1855. Retrieved August 3, 2013.