It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH FIJK LMNO PQCQ HRST| It was not death for I stood up | A |
| And all the dead lie down | B |
| It was not night for all the bells | C |
| Put out their tongues for noon | D |
| - | |
| It was not frost for on my flesh | E |
| I felt siroccos crawl | F |
| Nor fire for just my marble feet | G |
| Could keep a chancel cool | H |
| - | |
| And yet it tasted like them all | F |
| The figures I have seen | I |
| Set orderly for burial | J |
| Reminded me of mine | K |
| - | |
| As if my life were shaven | L |
| And fitted to a frame | M |
| And could not breathe without a key | N |
| And 't was like midnight some | O |
| - | |
| When everything that ticked has stopped | P |
| And space stares all around | Q |
| Or grisly frosts first autumn morns | C |
| Repeal the beating ground | Q |
| - | |
| But most like chaos stopless cool | H |
| Without a chance or spar | R |
| Or even a report of land | S |
| To justify despair | T |
Emily Dickinson
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up, poem by Emily Dickinson
Best Poems of Emily Dickinson