When God Lets My Body Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AB CD DE FG GH IAA| when god lets my body be | A |
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| from each brave eye shall sprout a tree | A |
| fruit that dangles therefrom | B |
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| the purpled world will dance upon | C |
| between my lips which did sing | D |
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| a rose shall beget the spring | D |
| that maidens whom passion wastes | E |
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| will lay between their little breasts | F |
| my strong fingers beneath the snow | G |
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| into strenuous birds shall go | G |
| my love walking in the grass | H |
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| their wings will touch with her face | I |
| and all the while shall my heart be | A |
| with the bulge and nuzzle of the sea | A |
E. E. Cummings
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