Not To Keep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQARSTHU| They sent him back to her The letter came | A |
| Saying And she could have him And before | B |
| She could be sure there was no hidden ill | C |
| Under the formal writing he was in her sight | D |
| Living They gave him back to her alive | E |
| How else They are not known to send the dead | F |
| And not disfigured visibly His face | G |
| His hands She had to look and ask | H |
| What was it dear And she had given all | I |
| And still she had all they had they the lucky | J |
| Wasn't she glad now Everything seemed won | K |
| And all the rest for them permissible ease | L |
| She had to ask What was it dear | M |
| - | |
| Enough | N |
| Yet not enough A bullet through and through | O |
| High in the breast Nothing but what good care | P |
| And medicine and rest and you a week | Q |
| Can cure me of to go again The same | A |
| Grim giving to do over for them both | R |
| She dared no more than ask him with her eyes | S |
| How was it with him for a second trial | T |
| And with his eyes he asked her not to ask | H |
| They had given him back to her but not to keep | U |
Robert Frost
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