When I Was Small, A Woman Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE EFGH IBJB KCLM INIO| A | |
| - | |
| When I was small a Woman died | B |
| Today her Only Boy | C |
| Went up from the Potomac | D |
| His face all Victory | E |
| - | |
| To look at her How slowly | E |
| The Seasons must have turned | F |
| Till Bullets clipt an Angle | G |
| And He passed quickly round | H |
| - | |
| If pride shall be in Paradise | I |
| Ourself cannot decide | B |
| Of their imperial Conduct | J |
| No person testified | B |
| - | |
| But proud in Apparition | K |
| That Woman and her Boy | C |
| Pass back and forth before my Brain | L |
| As even in the sky | M |
| - | |
| I'm confident that Bravoes | I |
| Perpetual break abroad | N |
| For Braveries remote as this | I |
| In Scarlet Maryland | O |
Emily Dickinson
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