Better-than Music! For I-who Heard It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF DHIJ HKHL EEEE EMNM

A
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Better than Music For I who heard itB
I was used to the Birds beforeC
This was different 'Twas TranslationD
Of all tunes I knew and moreC
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'Twasn't contained like other stanzaE
No one could play it the second timeF
But the Composer perfect MozartG
Perish with him that Keyless RhymeF
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So Children told how Brooks in EdenD
Bubbled a better MelodyH
Quaintly infer Eve's great surrenderI
Urging the feet that would not flyJ
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Children matured are wiser mostlyH
Eden a legend dimly toldK
Eve and the Anguish Grandame's storyH
But I was telling a tune I heardL
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Not such a strain the Church baptizesE
When the last Saint goes up the AislesE
Not such a stanza splits the silenceE
When the Redemption strikes her BellsE
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Let me not spill its smallest cadenceE
Humming for promise when aloneM
Humming until my faint RehearsalN
Drop into tune around the ThroneM

Emily Dickinson



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