The Mushroom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGBH BBIB JIBK| The 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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