Our Sister Of The Streets. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNGHGH| She comes not with the conscious grace | A |
| Of gentle winsome womanhood | B |
| Nor yet withal the flaunting face | A |
| Of men and women understood | B |
| But rather as a thing apart | C |
| A wind blown petal of a rose | D |
| A specter with a specter's heart | C |
| That cometh once and goes | D |
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| Her eyes some trace of cold white light | E |
| Within their haunted depths still hold | F |
| Though hunger's fever made them bright | E |
| And lack of pity made them cold | F |
| We know her when she passes by | G |
| Whom no one loves or chides or greets | H |
| The woman with the cold bright eye | G |
| Our sister of the streets | H |
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| We know the tawdry arts she tries | I |
| The tint of cheek the gold of hair | J |
| To mimic nature for the eyes | I |
| Of those who scorn her paltry care | J |
| And spurn those charms if aught abide | K |
| Within her beauty's narrowed scope | L |
| Now touched with less a wanton's pride | K |
| Than with an outcast's hope | L |
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| We know her in the blatant crowd | M |
| And feel her as we feel in fine | N |
| The eyes' remembrance of a cloud | M |
| The lips' faint bitterness of brine | N |
| We know her when she passes by | G |
| Whom no one loves or chides or greets | H |
| The woman with the cold bright eye | G |
| Our sister of the streets | H |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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