Eudoxia. First Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDEDEECC FGFGGCCBHBHHCC| O SWEETEST my sister my sister that sits in the sun | A |
| Her lap full of jewels and roses in showers on her hair | B |
| Soft smiling and counting her riches up slow one by one | A |
| Cool browed shaking dew from her garlands those garlands so fair | B |
| Many gasp climb snatch struggle and die for her every day wear | B |
| O beauteous my sister turn downwards those mild eyes of thine | C |
| Lest they stab with their smiling and blister or scorch where they shine | C |
| Young sister who never yet sat for an hour in the cold | D |
| Whose cheek scarcely feels half the roses that throng to caress | E |
| Whose light hands hold loosely these jewels and silver and gold | D |
| Remember thou those in the world who forever on press | E |
| In perils and watchings and hunger and nakedness | E |
| While thou sit'st content in the sunlight that round thee doth shine | C |
| Take heed these have long borne their burthen now lift thou up thine | C |
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| Be meek as befits one whose cup to the brim is love crowned | F |
| While others in dry dust drop empty What what canst thou know | G |
| Of the wild human tide that goes sweeping eternally round | F |
| The isle where thou sit'st pure and calm as a statue of snow | G |
| Around which good thoughts like kind angels continually go | G |
| Be pitiful Whose eyes once turned from the angels to shine | C |
| Upon publicans sinners O sister 't will not pollute thine | C |
| Who even eyed looks on His children the black and the fair | B |
| The loved and the unloved the tempted untempted marks all | H |
| And metes not as man metes If thou with weak tender hand dare | B |
| To take up His balances say where His justice should fall | H |
| Far better be Magdalen dead at the gate of thy hall | H |
| Dead sinning and loving and contrite and pardoned to shine | C |
| Midst he saints high in heaven than thou angel sister of mine | C |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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