I Years Had Been From Home, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KBLB MENE OPQR| I years had been from home | A |
| And now before the door | B |
| I dared not open lest a face | C |
| I never saw before | B |
| - | |
| Stare vacant into mine | D |
| And ask my business there | E |
| My business just a life I left | F |
| Was such still dwelling there | E |
| - | |
| I fumbled at my nerve | G |
| I scanned the windows near | H |
| The silence like an ocean rolled | I |
| And broke against my ear | J |
| - | |
| I laughed a wooden laugh | K |
| That I could fear a door | B |
| Who danger and the dead had faced | L |
| But never quaked before | B |
| - | |
| I fitted to the latch | M |
| My hand with trembling care | E |
| Lest back the awful door should spring | N |
| And leave me standing there | E |
| - | |
| I moved my fingers off | O |
| As cautiously as glass | P |
| And held my ears and like a thief | Q |
| Fled gasping from the house | R |
Emily Dickinson
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