To Know Just How He Suffered Would Be Dear;" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG HGIG JKJLM NOPO QRRJJ| To know just how he suffered would be dear | A |
| To know if any human eyes were near | A |
| To whom he could intrust his wavering gaze | B |
| Until it settled firm on Paradise | C |
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| To know if he was patient part content | D |
| Was dying as he thought or different | E |
| Was it a pleasant day to die | F |
| And did the sunshine face his way | G |
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| What was his furthest mind of home or God | H |
| Or what the distant say | G |
| At news that he ceased human nature | I |
| On such a day | G |
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| And wishes had he any | J |
| Just his sigh accented | K |
| Had been legible to me | J |
| And was he confident until | L |
| Ill fluttered out in everlasting well | M |
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| And if he spoke what name was best | N |
| What first | O |
| What one broke off with | P |
| At the drowsiest | O |
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| Was he afraid or tranquil | Q |
| Might he know | R |
| How conscious consciousness could grow | R |
| Till love that was and love too blest to be | J |
| Meet and the junction be Eternity | J |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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