Promise This-when You Be Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFGF HIHI JCIK LJIJ IMIN JCIC IOJJP| A | |
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| Promise This When You be Dying | B |
| Some shall summon Me | C |
| Mine belong Your latest Sighing | B |
| Mine to Belt Your Eye | D |
| - | |
| Not with Coins though they be Minted | E |
| From an Emperor's Hand | F |
| Be my lips the only Buckle | G |
| Your low Eyes demand | F |
| - | |
| Mine to stay when all have wandered | H |
| To devise once more | I |
| If the Life be too surrendered | H |
| Life of Mine restore | I |
| - | |
| Poured like this My Whole Libation | J |
| Just that You should see | C |
| Bliss of Death Life's Bliss extol thro' | I |
| Imitating You | K |
| - | |
| Mine to guard Your Narrow Precinct | L |
| To seduce the Sun | J |
| Longest on Your South to linger | I |
| Largest Dews of Morn | J |
| - | |
| To demand in Your low favor | I |
| Lest the Jealous Grass | M |
| Greener lean Or fonder cluster | I |
| Round some other face | N |
| - | |
| Mine to supplicate Madonna | J |
| If Madonna be | C |
| Could behold so far a Creature | I |
| Christ omitted Me | C |
| - | |
| Just to follow Your dear future | I |
| Ne'er so far behind | O |
| For My Heaven | J |
| Had I not been | J |
| Most enough denied | P |
Emily Dickinson
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