Only When Needed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGEE CCDD| I mattered most when storms drew near | A |
| When voices called when hearts held fear | A |
| I gave my strength I bore their fall | B |
| But when I needed none at all | B |
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| Only when needed they saw me true | C |
| But when I was broken they never knew | C |
| My worth was fleeting a borrowed flame | D |
| And silence answered when I came | D |
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| I carried burdens not my own | E |
| I stood for them yet stood alone | E |
| Their hands were warm when they required | F |
| But cold as stone when I grew tired | F |
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| Now I have learned what worth can mean | G |
| Not in their eyes but in between | G |
| For when I fell the truth was shown | E |
| I never mattered not their own | E |
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| Only when needed they saw me true | C |
| But when I was broken they never knew | C |
| My worth was fleeting a borrowed flame | D |
| And silence answered when I came | D |
Vanessa Dizon Alvarez
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