I Measure Every Grief I Meet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFDG HIJI EKLM NOPQ RSGT UVWC UXCX YZA2Z B2C2D2E2| A | |
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| I measure every Grief I meet | B |
| With narrow probing Eyes | C |
| I wonder if It weighs like Mine | D |
| Or has an Easier size | C |
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| I wonder if They bore it long | E |
| Or did it just begin | F |
| I could not tell the Date of Mine | D |
| It feels so old a pain | G |
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| I wonder if it hurts to live | H |
| And if They have to try | I |
| And whether could They choose between | J |
| It would not be to die | I |
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| I note that Some gone patient long | E |
| At length renew their smile | K |
| An imitation of a Light | L |
| That has so little Oil | M |
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| I wonder if when Years have piled | N |
| Some Thousands on the Harm | O |
| That hurt them early such a lapse | P |
| Could give them any Balm | Q |
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| Or would they go on aching still | R |
| Through Centuries of Nerve | S |
| Enlightened to a larger Pain | G |
| In Contrast with the Love | T |
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| The Grieved are many I am told | U |
| There is the various Cause | V |
| Death is but one and comes but once | W |
| And only nails the eyes | C |
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| There's Grief of Want and Grief of Cold | U |
| A sort they call Despair | X |
| There's Banishment from native Eyes | C |
| In sight of Native Air | X |
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| And though I may not guess the kind | Y |
| Correctly yet to me | Z |
| A piercing Comfort it affords | A2 |
| In passing Calvary | Z |
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| To note the fashions of the Cross | B2 |
| And how they're mostly worn | C2 |
| Still fascinated to presume | D2 |
| That Some are like My Own | E2 |
Emily Dickinson
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