My Heart And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABBCDDA AAEEAFFA AAGGAGGA DAHHAGGA DAIJAKKA AABBALMA AAGGAAAA| I | A |
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| ENOUGH we're tired my heart and I | A |
| We sit beside the headstone thus | B |
| And wish that name were carved for us | B |
| The moss reprints more tenderly | C |
| The hard types of the mason's knife | D |
| As heaven's sweet life renews earth's life | D |
| With which we're tired my heart and I | A |
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| II | A |
| You see we're tired my heart and I | A |
| We dealt with books we trusted men | E |
| And in our own blood drenched the pen | E |
| As if such colours could not fly | A |
| We walked too straight for fortune's end | F |
| We loved too true to keep a friend | F |
| At last we're tired my heart and I | A |
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| III | A |
| How tired we feel my heart and I | A |
| We seem of no use in the world | G |
| Our fancies hang grey and uncurled | G |
| About men's eyes indifferently | A |
| Our voice which thrilled you so will let | G |
| You sleep our tears are only wet | G |
| What do we here my heart and I | A |
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| IV | D |
| So tired so tired my heart and I | A |
| It was not thus in that old time | H |
| When Ralph sat with me 'neath the lime | H |
| To watch the sunset from the sky | A |
| Dear love you're looking tired ' he said | G |
| I smiling at him shook my head | G |
| 'Tis now we're tired my heart and I | A |
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| V | D |
| So tired so tired my heart and I | A |
| Though now none takes me on his arm | I |
| To fold me close and kiss me warm | J |
| Till each quick breath end in a sigh | A |
| Of happy languor Now alone | K |
| We lean upon this graveyard stone | K |
| Uncheered unkissed my heart and I | A |
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| VI | A |
| Tired out we are my heart and I | A |
| Suppose the world brought diadems | B |
| To tempt us crusted with loose gems | B |
| Of powers and pleasures Let it try | A |
| We scarcely care to look at even | L |
| A pretty child or God's blue heaven | M |
| We feel so tired my heart and I | A |
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| VII | A |
| Yet who complains My heart and I | A |
| In this abundant earth no doubt | G |
| Is little room for things worn out | G |
| Disdain them break them throw them by | A |
| And if before the days grew rough | A |
| We once were loved used well enough | A |
| I think we've fared my heart and I | A |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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