If I May Have It, When It's Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFE EEGHE IEJK LLEE MMGE CENO| A | |
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| If I may have it when it's dead | B |
| I'll be contented so | C |
| If just as soon as Breath is out | D |
| It shall belong to me | E |
| - | |
| Until they lock it in the Grave | F |
| 'Tis Bliss I cannot weigh | G |
| For tho' they lock Thee in the Grave | F |
| Myself can own the key | E |
| - | |
| Think of it Lover I and Thee | E |
| Permitted face to face to be | E |
| After a Life a Death We'll say | G |
| For Death was That | H |
| And this is Thee | E |
| - | |
| I'll tell Thee All how Bald it grew | I |
| How Midnight felt at first to me | E |
| How all the Clocks stopped in the World | J |
| And Sunshine pinched me 'Twas so cold | K |
| - | |
| Then how the Grief got sleepy some | L |
| As if my Soul were deaf and dumb | L |
| Just making signs across to Thee | E |
| That this way thou could'st notice me | E |
| - | |
| I'll tell you how I tried to keep | M |
| A smile to show you when this Deep | M |
| All Waded We look back for Play | G |
| At those Old Times in Calvary | E |
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| Forgive me if the Grave come slow | C |
| For Coveting to look at Thee | E |
| Forgive me if to stroke thy frost | N |
| Outvisions Paradise | O |
Emily Dickinson
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