How does the rhyming in this poem create emphasis on certain words? How does the
emphasis on those words, in turn, emphasize certain themes? Cite evidence from the text
to support your answer.

Whitman uses a strong figurative language with an iambic meter that provides a fluid rhythm and enhanced effect.

Explanation:

Walt Whitman's poem was written for President Abraham Lincoln, his favorite President. "Whitman uses a strong figurative language with an iambic meter that provides a fluid rhythm and enhanced effect", although the poem had no proper rhyme scheme.

The poem starts in a happy note and ended in despair and distress of a great leader. The lines in the poem emphasized the theme much and the tone kept changing.

The emotions and pity of the poet and the loss of a great leader in history helped to enhance the effect of understanding as a result of the repetition of the lines till the final line.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

that you cannot mess with fate and love cannot be controlled