Going To Him! Happy Letter! Tell Him-- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJKFLML N OPQRL| Going to him Happy letter Tell him | A |
| Tell him the page I didn't write | B |
| Tell him I only said the syntax | C |
| And left the verb and the pronoun out | D |
| - | |
| Tell him just how the fingers hurried | E |
| Then how they waded slow slow slow | F |
| And then you wished you had eyes in your pages | G |
| So you could see what moved them so | F |
| - | |
| 'Tell him it wasn't a practised writer | H |
| You guessed from the way the sentence toiled | I |
| You could hear the bodice tug behind you | J |
| As if it held but the might of a child | K |
| You almost pitied it you it worked so | F |
| Tell him No you may quibble there | L |
| For it would split his heart to know it | M |
| And then you and I were silenter | L |
| - | |
| 'Tell him night finished before we finished | N |
| And the old clock kept neighing 'day ' | - |
| And you got sleepy and begged to be ended | O |
| What could it hinder so to say | P |
| Tell him just how she sealed you cautious | Q |
| But if he ask where you are hid | R |
| Until to morrow happy letter | L |
| Gesture coquette and shake your head ' | - |
Emily Dickinson
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