The Chariot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFB GHIH JKLK MENB| Because I could not stop for Death | A |
| He kindly stopped for me | B |
| The carriage held but just ourselves | C |
| And Immortality | B |
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| We slowly drove he knew no haste | D |
| And I had put away | E |
| My labor and my leisure too | F |
| For his civility | B |
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| We passed the school where children played | G |
| Their lessons scarcely done | H |
| We passed the fields of gazing grain | I |
| We passed the setting sun | H |
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| We paused before a house that seemed | J |
| A swelling of the ground | K |
| The roof was scarcely visible | L |
| The cornice but a mound | K |
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| Since then 'tis centuries but each | M |
| Feels shorter than the day | E |
| I first surmised the horses' heads | N |
| Were toward eternity | B |
Emily Dickinson
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