The Mushroom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGBH BBIB JIBKThe mushroom is the elf of plants | A |
At evening it is not | B |
At morning in a truffled hut | C |
It stops upon a spot | B |
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As if it tarried always | D |
And yet its whole career | E |
Is shorter than a snake's delay | F |
And fleeter than a tare | E |
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'T is vegetation's juggler | E |
The germ of alibi | G |
Doth like a bubble antedate | B |
And like a bubble hie | H |
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I feel as if the grass were pleased | B |
To have it intermit | B |
The surreptitious scion | I |
Of summer's circumspect | B |
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Had nature any outcast face | J |
Could she a son contemn | I |
Had nature an Iscariot | B |
That mushroom it is him | K |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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