My Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCC CADA AAAA AEAC FGDH AIAC CCFC JAAK LACH CDAM CCNO

It's ten o'clock at night in the room in semidarknessA
My sister is asleep hands on her chestB
Her face is very white and very white her bedC
As if it understood the light is almost unlitC
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She sinks into the bed like rosy fruitC
from smooth pastures into the depths of the mattressA
The air enters her chest and raises it chastelyD
With its rhythm measuring the fleeting minutesA
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I tuck her tenderly into the white coversA
And protect from the air her two divine handsA
Walking on tiptoe I close all the doorsA
leave the shutters half open and draw the drapesA
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There's a lot of noise outside drowning so much noiseA
The men are suing each other whisper the womenE
Words of hate go up the shouts of the merchantsA
Oh voices stop it Don't enter till you come to your nestC
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My sister is weaving her silk cocoonF
Like a skilled caterpillar her cocoon is a dreamG
With thread of gold she weaves the silken ballD
Spring is her life I am already summerH
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She counts with only fifteen Octobers in her eyesA
And so her eyes are so clean and clearI
She beleives that storks from strange countriesA
Come down carrying beautiful babies with little red feetC
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Who wants to enter now Oh is it you good windC
Do you want to watch her Come in But firstC
Warm up a moment don't go so soonF
and freeze the gentle dream in her presentC
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Like you it's well that the rest would like to come inJ
and watch that whiteness those immaculate cheeksA
Those fine bags under her eyes those simple linesA
You would see them wind and kneel and weepK
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Oh if you love her be good a day because sheL
flees from the light if it hurts her Watch your wordsA
and your intention Her soul like wax can be carvedC
But like wax too much touch destroys herH
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Do as that star that watches her by nightC
Filtering its eye through a crystalline veilD
That star rubs its eyelashes and spinsA
But does not wake her silent in the skyM
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Fly away if it's possible for your snow white orchardC
Piety for your soul She is immaculateC
Piety for your soul I know it all it's trueN
But she is like the sky She knows nothingO

Alfonsina Storni



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