I Meant To Have But Modest Needs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHG IJKJ LMJM NOPMQMRM SGTU| A | |
| - | |
| I meant to have but modest needs | B |
| Such as Content and Heaven | C |
| Within my income these could lie | D |
| And Life and I keep even | E |
| - | |
| But since the last included both | F |
| It would suffice my Prayer | G |
| But just for One to stipulate | H |
| And Grace would grant the Pair | G |
| - | |
| And so upon this wise I prayed | I |
| Great Spirit Give to me | J |
| A Heaven not so large as Yours | K |
| But large enough for me | J |
| - | |
| A Smile suffused Jehovah's face | L |
| The Cherubim withdrew | M |
| Grave Saints stole out to look at me | J |
| And showed their dimples too | M |
| - | |
| I left the Place with all my might | N |
| I threw my Prayer away | O |
| The Quiet Ages picked it up | P |
| And Judgment twinkled too | M |
| Tat one so honest be extant | Q |
| It take the Tale for true | M |
| That Whatsoever Ye shall ask | R |
| Itself be given You | M |
| - | |
| But I grown shrewder scan the Skies | S |
| With a suspicious Air | G |
| As Children swindled for the first | T |
| All Swindlers be infer | U |
Emily Dickinson
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