A Prayer. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLIL MLNL OLPL QFRS| I meant to have but modest needs | A |
| Such as content and heaven | B |
| Within my income these could lie | C |
| And life and I keep even | D |
| - | |
| But since the last included both | E |
| It would suffice my prayer | F |
| But just for one to stipulate | G |
| And grace would grant the pair | F |
| - | |
| And so upon this wise I prayed | H |
| Great Spirit give to me | I |
| A heaven not so large as yours | J |
| But large enough for me | I |
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| A smile suffused Jehovah's face | K |
| The cherubim withdrew | L |
| Grave saints stole out to look at me | I |
| And showed their dimples too | L |
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| I left the place with all my might | M |
| My prayer away I threw | L |
| The quiet ages picked it up | N |
| And Judgment twinkled too | L |
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| That one so honest be extant | O |
| As take the tale for true | L |
| That Whatsoever you shall ask | P |
| Itself be given you | L |
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| But I grown shrewder scan the skies | Q |
| With a suspicious air | F |
| As children swindled for the first | R |
| All swindlers be infer | S |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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