An "immurata" Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDCEFFE GHGH AIIAJDJJ KLKL| Life flows down to death we cannot bind | A |
| That current that it should not flee | B |
| Life flows down to death as rivers find | A |
| The inevitable sea | B |
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| Men work and think but women feel | C |
| And so for I'm a woman I | D |
| And so I should be glad to die | D |
| And cease from impotence of zeal | C |
| And cease from hope and cease from dread | E |
| And cease from yearnings without gain | F |
| And cease from all this world of pain | F |
| And be at peace among the dead | E |
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| Hearts that die by death renew their youth | G |
| Lightened of this life that doubts and dies | H |
| Silent and contented while the Truth | G |
| Unveiled makes them wise | H |
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| Why should I seek and never find | A |
| That something which I have not had | I |
| Fair and unutterably sad | I |
| The world hath sought time out of mind | A |
| The world hath sought and I have sought | J |
| Ah empty world and empty I | D |
| For we have spent our strength for nought | J |
| And soon it will be time to die | J |
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| Sparks fly upward toward their fount of fire | K |
| Kindling flashing hovering | L |
| Kindle flash my soul mount higher and higher | K |
| Thou whole burnt offering | L |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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