Love's Baptism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEF EEGHIJ KLMNNO| I'm ceded I've stopped being theirs | A |
| The name they dropped upon my face | B |
| With water in the country church | C |
| Is finished using now | D |
| And they can put it with my dolls | E |
| My childhood and the string of spools | E |
| I've finished threading too | F |
| - | |
| Baptized before without the choice | E |
| But this time consciously of grace | E |
| Unto supremest name | G |
| Called to my full the crescent dropped | H |
| Existence's whole arc filled up | I |
| With one small diadem | J |
| - | |
| My second rank too small the first | K |
| Crowned crowing on my father's breast | L |
| A half unconscious queen | M |
| But this time adequate erect | N |
| With will to choose or to reject | N |
| And I choose just a throne | O |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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