I Was The Slightest In The House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CBBBB BBBB BDEB| A | |
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| I was the slightest in the House mdash | B |
| I took the smallest Room mdash | B |
| At night my little Lamp and Book mdash | B |
| And one Geranium mdash | B |
| - | |
| So stationed I could catch the Mint | C |
| That never ceased to fall mdash | B |
| And just my Basket mdash | B |
| Let me think mdash I'm sure mdash | B |
| That this was all mdash | B |
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| I never spoke mdash unless addressed mdash | B |
| And then 'twas brief and low mdash | B |
| I could not bear to live mdash aloud mdash | B |
| The Racket shamed me so mdash | B |
| - | |
| And if it had not been so far mdash | B |
| And any one I knew | D |
| Were going mdash I had often thought | E |
| How noteless mdash I could die mdash | B |
Emily Dickinson
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