My Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB EFEF GHGH IJIJ AKAK ILIL IJIJ IIJI| List I to the hurried beatings | A |
| Of my heart | B |
| How its quickened loud repeatings | A |
| Make me start | B |
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| Often do I hear it throbbing | C |
| Fast and wild | D |
| As I've heard it after sobbing | C |
| When a child | D |
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| Why so wild so swift and heated | E |
| Little heart | B |
| Is there something in thee seated | E |
| Baffling art | B |
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| Pain with all thy throbs is blended | E |
| Pain so dread | F |
| Oftentimes life seems suspended | E |
| By a thread | F |
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| Then thou'lt grow so still like ocean | G |
| In its rest | H |
| Till I scarce can feel a motion | G |
| In my breast | H |
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| Think'st thy house is dark and dreary | I |
| Veiled in night | J |
| Art thou pining sad and weary | I |
| For the light | J |
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| Wouldst be free from the dominions | A |
| That control | K |
| Spreading all thy golden pinions | A |
| Toward the goal | K |
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| Gladly gladly would I free thee | I |
| From Earth's thrall | L |
| With what bliss and joy to see thee | I |
| Rise o'er all | L |
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| But 'tis not for me to aid thee | I |
| In thy flight | J |
| For the Holy One who made thee | I |
| Doeth right | J |
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| When his own good time arriveth | I |
| Then will He | I |
| From the load with which thou strivest | J |
| Set thee free | I |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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