I Had Been Hungry All The Years- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLMN OPQP| I had been hungry all the years | A |
| My noon had come to dine | B |
| I trembling drew the table near | C |
| And touched the curious wine | B |
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| 'T was this on tables I had seen | D |
| When turning hungry lone | E |
| I looked in windows for the wealth | F |
| I could not hope to own | E |
| - | |
| I did not know the ample bread | G |
| 'T was so unlike the crumb | H |
| The birds and I had often shared | I |
| In Nature's dining room | J |
| - | |
| The plenty hurt me 't was so new | K |
| Myself felt ill and odd | L |
| As berry of a mountain bush | M |
| Transplanted to the road | N |
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| Nor was I hungry so I found | O |
| That hunger was a way | P |
| Of persons outside windows | Q |
| The entering takes away | P |
Emily Dickinson
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