The Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFD GHIJ| She rose to his requirement dropped | A |
| The playthings of her life | B |
| To take the honorable work | C |
| Of woman and of wife | B |
| - | |
| If aught she missed in her new day | D |
| Of amplitude or awe | E |
| Or first prospective or the gold | F |
| In using wore away | D |
| - | |
| It lay unmentioned as the sea | G |
| Develops pearl and weed | H |
| But only to himself is known | I |
| The fathoms they abide | J |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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