The Lightning Playeth'all The While Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHG IGJG| A | |
| - | |
| The Lightning playeth all the while | B |
| But when He singeth then | C |
| Ourselves are conscious He exist | D |
| And we approach Him stern | E |
| - | |
| With Insulators and a Glove | F |
| Whose short sepulchral Bass | G |
| Alarms us tho' His Yellow feet | H |
| May pass and counterpass | G |
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| Upon the Ropes above our Head | I |
| Continual with the News | G |
| Nor We so much as check our speech | J |
| Nor stop to cross Ourselves | G |
Emily Dickinson
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