My Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC CADA AAAA AEAC FGDH AIAC CCFC JAAK LACH CDAM CCNOIt's ten o'clock at night in the room in semidarkness | A |
My sister is asleep hands on her chest | B |
Her face is very white and very white her bed | C |
As if it understood the light is almost unlit | C |
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She sinks into the bed like rosy fruit | C |
from smooth pastures into the depths of the mattress | A |
The air enters her chest and raises it chastely | D |
With its rhythm measuring the fleeting minutes | A |
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I tuck her tenderly into the white covers | A |
And protect from the air her two divine hands | A |
Walking on tiptoe I close all the doors | A |
leave the shutters half open and draw the drapes | A |
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There's a lot of noise outside drowning so much noise | A |
The men are suing each other whisper the women | E |
Words of hate go up the shouts of the merchants | A |
Oh voices stop it Don't enter till you come to your nest | C |
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My sister is weaving her silk cocoon | F |
Like a skilled caterpillar her cocoon is a dream | G |
With thread of gold she weaves the silken ball | D |
Spring is her life I am already summer | H |
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She counts with only fifteen Octobers in her eyes | A |
And so her eyes are so clean and clear | I |
She beleives that storks from strange countries | A |
Come down carrying beautiful babies with little red feet | C |
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Who wants to enter now Oh is it you good wind | C |
Do you want to watch her Come in But first | C |
Warm up a moment don't go so soon | F |
and freeze the gentle dream in her present | C |
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Like you it's well that the rest would like to come in | J |
and watch that whiteness those immaculate cheeks | A |
Those fine bags under her eyes those simple lines | A |
You would see them wind and kneel and weep | K |
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Oh if you love her be good a day because she | L |
flees from the light if it hurts her Watch your words | A |
and your intention Her soul like wax can be carved | C |
But like wax too much touch destroys her | H |
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Do as that star that watches her by night | C |
Filtering its eye through a crystalline veil | D |
That star rubs its eyelashes and spins | A |
But does not wake her silent in the sky | M |
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Fly away if it's possible for your snow white orchard | C |
Piety for your soul She is immaculate | C |
Piety for your soul I know it all it's true | N |
But she is like the sky She knows nothing | O |
Alfonsina Storni
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