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 "title": "What Am I After All",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 215,
 "container": "Autumn Rivulets",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1860–61 scan. The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "What am I after all but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I stand apart to hear⁠—it never tires me.",
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   {
    "text": "To you your name also;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?",
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