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 it | B |
| I was used to the Birds before | C |
| This was different 'Twas Translation | D |
| Of all tunes I knew and more | C |
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| 'Twasn't contained like other stanza | E |
| No one could play it the second time | F |
| But the Composer perfect Mozart | G |
| Perish with him that Keyless Rhyme | F |
| - | |
| So Children told how Brooks in Eden | D |
| Bubbled a better Melody | H |
| Quaintly infer Eve's great surrender | I |
| Urging the feet that would not fly | J |
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| Children matured are wiser mostly | H |
| Eden a legend dimly told | K |
| Eve and the Anguish Grandame's story | H |
| But I was telling a tune I heard | L |
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| Not such a strain the Church baptizes | E |
| When the last Saint goes up the Aisles | E |
| Not such a stanza splits the silence | E |
| When the Redemption strikes her Bells | E |
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| Let me not spill its smallest cadence | E |
| Humming for promise when alone | M |
| Humming until my faint Rehearsal | N |
| Drop into tune around the Throne | M |
Emily Dickinson
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