Alms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECF GHIJ KLCL MNON PAQA CRSR| My heart is what it was before | A |
| A house where people come and go | B |
| But it is winter with your love | C |
| The sashes are beset with snow | B |
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| I light the lamp and lay the cloth | D |
| I blow the coals to blaze again | E |
| But it is winter with your love | C |
| The frost is thick upon the pane | F |
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| I know a winter when it comes | G |
| The leaves are listless on the boughs | H |
| I watched your love a little while | I |
| And brought my plants into the house | J |
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| I water them and turn them south | K |
| I snap the dead brown from the stem | L |
| But it is winter with your love | C |
| I only tend and water them | L |
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| There was a time I stood and watched | M |
| The small ill natured sparrows' fray | N |
| I loved the beggar that I fed | O |
| I cared for what he had to say | N |
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| I stood and watched him out of sight | P |
| Today I reach around the door | A |
| And set a bowl upon the step | Q |
| My heart is what it was before | A |
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| But it is winter with your love | C |
| I scatter crumbs upon the sill | R |
| And close the window and the birds | S |
| May take or leave them as they will | R |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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