I Tie My Hat-i Crease My Shawl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGFHIJIFKLMINONCPIQ RSTUT VLQM| A | |
| - | |
| I tie my Hat I crease my Shawl | B |
| Life's little duties do precisely | C |
| As the very least | D |
| Were infinite to me | C |
| - | |
| I put new Blossoms in the Glass | E |
| And throw the old away | F |
| I push a petal from my gown | G |
| That anchored there I weigh | F |
| The time 'twill be till six o'clock | H |
| I have so much to do | I |
| And yet Existence some way back | J |
| Stopped struck my tickling through | I |
| We cannot put Ourself away | F |
| As a completed Man | K |
| Or Woman When the Errand's done | L |
| We came to Flesh upon | M |
| There may be Miles on Miles of Nought | I |
| Of Action sicker far | N |
| To simulate is stinging work | O |
| To cover what we are | N |
| From Science and from Surgery | C |
| Too Telescopic Eyes | P |
| To bear on us unshaded | I |
| For their sake not for Ours | Q |
| 'Twould start them | R |
| We could tremble | S |
| But since we got a Bomb | T |
| And held it in our Bosom | U |
| Nay Hold it it is calm | T |
| - | |
| Therefore we do life's labor | V |
| Though life's Reward be done | L |
| With scrupulous exactness | Q |
| To hold our Senses on | M |
Emily Dickinson
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