Your Riches-taught Me-poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFBF GEBE HIJI BFKF BLBM IBNB EOFP| A | |
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| Your Riches taught me Poverty | B |
| Myself a Millionaire | C |
| In little Wealths as Girls could boast | D |
| Till broad as Buenos Ayre | C |
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| You drifted your Dominions | E |
| A Different Peru | F |
| And I esteemed All Poverty | B |
| For Life's Estate with you | F |
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| Of Mines I little know myself | G |
| But just the names of Gems | E |
| The Colors of the Commonest | B |
| And scarce of Diadems | E |
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| So much that did I meet the Queen | H |
| Her Glory I should know | I |
| But this must be a different Wealth | J |
| To miss it beggars so | I |
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| I'm sure 'tis India all Day | B |
| To those who look on You | F |
| Without a stint without a blame | K |
| Might I but be the Jew | F |
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| I'm sure it is Golconda | B |
| Beyond my power to deem | L |
| To have a smile for Mine each Day | B |
| How better than a Gem | M |
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| At least it solaces to know | I |
| That there exists a Gold | B |
| Altho' I prove it just in time | N |
| Its distance to behold | B |
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| Its far far Treasure to surmise | E |
| And estimate the Pearl | O |
| That slipped my simple fingers through | F |
| While just a Girl at School | P |
Emily Dickinson
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