If You Were Coming In The Fall, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNKN| If you were coming in the fall | A |
| I'd brush the summer by | B |
| With half a smile and half a spum | C |
| As housewives do a fly | B |
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| If I could see you in a year | D |
| I'd wind the months in balls | E |
| And put them each in separate drawers | F |
| Until their time befalls | E |
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| If only centuries delayed | G |
| I'd count them on my hand | H |
| Subtracting till my fingers dropped | I |
| Into Van Diemen's land | H |
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| If certain when this life was out | J |
| That yours and mine should be | K |
| I'd toss it yonder like a rind | L |
| And taste eternity | K |
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| But now all ignorant of the length | M |
| Of time's uncertain wing | N |
| It goads me like the goblin bee | K |
| That will not state its sting | N |
Emily Dickinson
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