"If" by Emily Dicksenson is about doing helping people. In the first line Dickenson writes that "if i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain" this is a metaphor meaning that if i help someone for not getting hurt i will not fel bad about my self because i helped someone out. This poem has a rhyme scheme of AB AB ect. This poem also contains repition " I shall not live in vain".This poem reminds me of the saying what come around goes around because if you do something good for someone something els good will happem to you.
IF I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain
IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain