Griefs. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECF GHIH JKLM NOFO PBQB P BR STUT VWXW| I measure every grief I meet | A |
| With analytic eyes | B |
| I wonder if it weighs like mine | C |
| Or has an easier size | B |
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| I wonder if they bore it long | D |
| Or did it just begin | E |
| I could not tell the date of mine | C |
| It feels so old a pain | F |
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| I wonder if it hurts to live | G |
| And if they have to try | H |
| And whether could they choose between | I |
| They would not rather die | H |
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| I wonder if when years have piled | J |
| Some thousands on the cause | K |
| Of early hurt if such a lapse | L |
| Could give them any pause | M |
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| Or would they go on aching still | N |
| Through centuries above | O |
| Enlightened to a larger pain | F |
| By contrast with the love | O |
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| The grieved are many I am told | P |
| The reason deeper lies | B |
| Death is but one and comes but once | Q |
| And only nails the eyes | B |
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| There's grief of want and grief of cold | P |
| A sort they call 'despair ' | - |
| There's banishment from native eyes | B |
| In sight of native air | R |
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| And though I may not guess the kind | S |
| Correctly yet to me | T |
| A piercing comfort it affords | U |
| In passing Calvary | T |
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| To note the fashions of the cross | V |
| Of those that stand alone | W |
| Still fascinated to presume | X |
| That some are like my own | W |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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