If I May Have It, When It's Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFE EEGHE IEJK LLEE MMGE CENOA | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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