He Touched Me, So I Live To Know Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC EFGBHG IIJKKLA | |
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He touched me so I live to know | B |
That such a day permitted so | B |
I groped upon his breast | C |
It was a boundless place to me | D |
And silenced as the awful sea | D |
Puts minor streams to rest | C |
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And now I'm different from before | E |
As if I breathed superior air | F |
Or brushed a Royal Gown | G |
My feet too that had wandered so | B |
My Gypsy face transfigured now | H |
To tenderer Renown | G |
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Into this Port if I might come | I |
Rebecca to Jerusalem | I |
Would not so ravished turn | J |
Nor Persian baffled at her shrine | K |
Lift such a Crucifixial sign | K |
To her imperial Sun | L |
Emily Dickinson
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