'twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FFGFF FFHF IFJF FKLF MNFO| A | |
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| 'Twas like a Maelstrom with a notch | B |
| That nearer every Day | C |
| Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel | D |
| Until the Agony | E |
| - | |
| Toyed coolly with the final inch | F |
| Of your delirious Hem mdash | F |
| And you dropt lost | G |
| When something broke mdash | F |
| And let you from a Dream mdash | F |
| - | |
| As if a Goblin with a Gauge mdash | F |
| Kept measuring the Hours mdash | F |
| Until you felt your Second | H |
| Weigh helpless in his Paws mdash | F |
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| And not a Sinew mdash stirred mdash could help | I |
| And sense was setting numb mdash | F |
| When God mdash remembered mdash and the Fiend | J |
| Let go then Overcome mdash | F |
| - | |
| As if your Sentence stood mdash pronounced mdash | F |
| And you were frozen led | K |
| From Dungeon's luxury of Doubt | L |
| To Gibbets and the Dead mdash | F |
| - | |
| And when the Film had stitched your eyes | M |
| A Creature gasped Reprieve | N |
| Which Anguish was the utterest mdash then mdash | F |
| To perish or to live | O |
Emily Dickinson
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