"your Riches Taught Me Poverty." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBAB EDAD FGHG ABIB AJAK GALA DMBN| Your riches taught me poverty | A |
| Myself a millionnaire | B |
| In little wealths as girls could boast | C |
| Till broad as Buenos Ayre | B |
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| You drifted your dominions | D |
| A different Peru | B |
| And I esteemed all poverty | A |
| For life's estate with you | B |
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| Of mines I little know myself | E |
| But just the names of gems | D |
| The colors of the commonest | A |
| And scarce of diadems | D |
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| So much that did I meet the queen | F |
| Her glory I should know | G |
| But this must be a different wealth | H |
| To miss it beggars so | G |
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| I 'm sure 't is India all day | A |
| To those who look on you | B |
| Without a stint without a blame | I |
| Might I but be the Jew | B |
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| I 'm sure it is Golconda | A |
| Beyond my power to deem | J |
| To have a smile for mine each day | A |
| How better than a gem | K |
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| At least it solaces to know | G |
| That there exists a gold | A |
| Although I prove it just in time | L |
| Its distance to behold | A |
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| It 's far far treasure to surmise | D |
| And estimate the pearl | M |
| That slipped my simple fingers through | B |
| While just a girl at school | N |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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