The Offering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BBCC DED EEF| What will you give me for this heart of mine | A |
| No heart of gold and yet my dearest treasure | B |
| It has its graces it can ache and pine | A |
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| And beat true time to your sweet voice's measure | B |
| It bears your name it lives but for your pleasure | B |
| What will you give me for this heart I bring | C |
| That holds my life my joy my everything | C |
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| How can I ask a price when all my prayer | D |
| Is that without return you will but take it | E |
| Feed it with hope or starve it to despair | D |
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| Keep it to play with mock it crush it break it | E |
| And if your will lies there at last forsake it | E |
| Its epitaph shall voice its deathless pride | F |
| 'She held me in her hands until I died ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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