I Measure Every Grief I Meet (561) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECF GHIH DJKL MNOP QRFS TUVB TWBW XYZY A2B2C2D2| I measure every Grief I meet | A |
| With narrow probing Eyes | B |
| I wonder if It weighs like Mine | C |
| Or has an Easier size | B |
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| I wonder if They bore it long | D |
| Or did it just begin | E |
| I could not tell the Date of Mine | C |
| It feels so old a pain | F |
| - | |
| I wonder if it hurts to live | G |
| And if They have to try | H |
| And whether could They choose between | I |
| It would not be to die | H |
| - | |
| I note that Some gone patient long | D |
| At length renew their smile | J |
| An imitation of a Light | K |
| That has so little Oil | L |
| - | |
| I wonder if when Years have piled | M |
| Some Thousands on the Harm | N |
| That hurt them early such a lapse | O |
| Could give them any Balm | P |
| - | |
| Or would they go on aching still | Q |
| Through Centuries of Nerve | R |
| Enlightened to a larger Pain | F |
| In Contrast with the Love | S |
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| The Grieved are many I am told | T |
| There is the various Cause | U |
| Death is but one and comes but once | V |
| And only nails the eyes | B |
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| There's Grief of Want and grief of Cold | T |
| A sort they call Despair | W |
| There's Banishment from native Eyes | B |
| In Sight of Native Air | W |
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| And though I may not guess the kind | X |
| Correctly yet to me | Y |
| A piercing Comfort it affords | Z |
| In passing Calvary | Y |
| - | |
| To note the fashions of the Cross | A2 |
| And how they're mostly worn | B2 |
| Still fascinated to presume | C2 |
| That Some are like My Own | D2 |
Emily Dickinson
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