In A Library. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEG HIJI KLML NCOC PQRF STUT| A precious mouldering pleasure 't is | A |
| To meet an antique book | B |
| In just the dress his century wore | C |
| A privilege I think | D |
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| His venerable hand to take | E |
| And warming in our own | F |
| A passage back or two to make | E |
| To times when he was young | G |
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| His quaint opinions to inspect | H |
| His knowledge to unfold | I |
| On what concerns our mutual mind | J |
| The literature of old | I |
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| What interested scholars most | K |
| What competitions ran | L |
| When Plato was a certainty | M |
| And Sophocles a man | L |
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| When Sappho was a living girl | N |
| And Beatrice wore | C |
| The gown that Dante deified | O |
| Facts centuries before | C |
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| He traverses familiar | P |
| As one should come to town | Q |
| And tell you all your dreams were true | R |
| He lived where dreams were sown | F |
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| His presence is enchantment | S |
| You beg him not to go | T |
| Old volumes shake their vellum heads | U |
| And tantalize just so | T |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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