Enrica, 1865 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK| She came among us from the South | A |
| And made the North her home awhile | B |
| Our dimness brightened in her smile | B |
| Our tongue grew sweeter in her mouth | A |
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| We chilled beside her liberal glow | C |
| She dwarfed us by her ampler scale | D |
| Her full blown blossom made us pale | D |
| She summer like and we like snow | C |
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| We Englishwomen trim correct | E |
| All minted in the self same mould | F |
| Warm hearted but of semblance cold | F |
| All courteous out of self respect | E |
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| She woman in her natural grace | G |
| Less trammelled she by lore of school | H |
| Courteous by nature not by rule | H |
| Warm hearted and of cordial face | G |
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| So for awhile she made her home | I |
| Among us in the rigid North | J |
| She who from Italy came forth | J |
| And scaled the Alps and crossed the foam | I |
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| But if she found us like our sea | K |
| Of aspect colourless and chill | L |
| Rock girt like it she found us still | L |
| Deep at our deepest strong and free | K |
Christina Rossetti
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