It Feels A Shame To Be Alive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGH IJKL MNOP BQRHA | |
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It feels a shame to be Alive | B |
When Men so brave are dead | C |
One envies the Distinguished Dust | D |
Permitted such a Head | C |
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The Stone that tells defending Whom | E |
This Spartan put away | F |
What little of Him we possessed | G |
In Pawn for Liberty | H |
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The price is great Sublimely paid | I |
Do we deserve a Thing | J |
That lives like Dollars must be piled | K |
Before we may obtain | L |
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Are we that wait sufficient worth | M |
That such Enormous Pearl | N |
As life dissolved be for Us | O |
In Battle's horrid Bowl | P |
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It may be a Renown to live | B |
I think the Man who die | Q |
Those unsustained Saviors | R |
Present Divinity | H |
Emily Dickinson
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