A Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDFFE A GHHGGHHGIJIJIJ| I | A |
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| She gave up beauty in her tender youth | B |
| Gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways | C |
| She covered up her eyes lest they should gaze | C |
| On vanity and chose the bitter truth | B |
| Harsh towards herself towards others full of ruth | B |
| Servant of servants little known to praise | C |
| Long prayers and fasts trenched on her nights and days | C |
| She schooled herself to sights and sounds uncouth | B |
| That with the poor and stricken she might make | D |
| A home until the least of all sufficed | E |
| Her wants her own self learned she to forsake | D |
| Counting all earthly gain but hurt and loss | F |
| So with calm will she chose and bore the cross | F |
| And hated all for love of Jesus Christ | E |
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| II | A |
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| They knelt in silent anguish by her bed | G |
| And could not weep but calmly there she lay | H |
| All pain had left her and the sun's last ray | H |
| Shone through upon her warming into red | G |
| The shady curtains In her heart she said | G |
| Heaven opens I leave these and go away | H |
| The Bridegroom calls shall the Bride seek to stay | H |
| Then low upon her breast she bowed her head | G |
| O lily flower O gem of priceless worth | I |
| O dove with patient voice and patient eyes | J |
| O fruitful vine amid a land of dearth | I |
| O maid replete with loving purities | J |
| Thou bowedst down thy head with friends on earth | I |
| To raise it with the saints in Paradise | J |
Christina Rossetti
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